Unions Push Oregon OSHA To Boost Worker Protections In Heat Standard

Labor unions are urging Oregon’s worker-safety agency to strengthen its recently proposed permanent heat illness prevention standard by eliminating several key exemptions they say provide businesses with too much flexibility over worker conditions, while at the same time federal OSHA has begun weighing feedback on its own national heat stress rulemaking. In comment letters filed ahead of a series of recent public hearings, union groups and worker-safety advocates applauded Oregon OSHA’s Feb. 2 proposed heat illness standard but expressed concern...