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Heat Stress Awareness

If you’re taking this course, you are exposed to heat during the course of your job. You may work around hot equipment or outside on hot days. Or maybe you work in a foundry, mine, bakery, or any other hot or humid environment. You are around heat enough that your employer feels it is important for you to know the effect heat can have on your body. This course is going to explain the risks so that you can be aware of symptoms and protect yourself and your co-workers.

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Learning Objectives

Describe how the body handles heat.
State common safety problems associated with heat.

Give examples of ways to reduce the likelihood of heat stress.

Course Outline

1. Introduction
1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Learning Objectives
2. Coping with Heat
1. How We Cope with Heat – Blood Flow
2. How We Cope with Heat – Heat Loss
3. How We Cope with Heat – Air Temperatures
4. Side Effects of Cooling Mechanisms
5. Knowledge Check: How We Cope with Heat
3. Safety Problems
1. Safety Problems Associated with Heat
2. Learning Activity: Heat-Induced Disorders - Bob
3. Learning Activity: Heat-Induced Disorders - Anne
4. Learning Activity: Heat-Induced Disorders - Todd
5. Learning Activity: Heat-Induced Disorders - Lynnette
6. Heat-Induced Disorders: Fainting

4. Safe Practices
1. Preparing for the Heat
2. Heat Exposures
3. Rest Areas
4. Learning Activity: Lessening Stressful Conditions
5. Drinking Water
6. Protective Clothing
7. Knowledge Check: Drinking Water
5. Heat Illness
1. Report a Heat-Related Illness
6. Summary
1. Summary