This safety video program on Heat Stress in Healthcare Environments for Office and Facilities Personnel discusses how the body’s cooling system operates and responds to heat, types of heat-related illnesses and how to treat them, and how to prepare to work in hot healthcare environments safely. It also provides guidance on how to engineer controls for hot environments.
Our bodies are strong, flexible and capable of performing a variety of demanding tasks, but heat stress can interfere with its natural processes. When this happens, the results can be serious, even fatal. But they don’t have to be.
Areas covered include:
- information on how heat affects the body’s cooling system,
- types of heat-related illnesses and their symptoms,
- treating heat-related illnesses,
- how to prepare for working in hot environments,
- how to engineer controls for hot environments, and more.
The safety video program comes with a quiz, a scheduling and attendance form, a training certificate, and an employee training log.
Associated Regulations:
- 1926.28 - Personal Protective Equipment
- 1910.132 - General Requirements
This safety video program is produced by The MARCOM Group, Ltd.