OPN 141 - Enforcement Guidance for Conducting Heat-Related Illness Inspections and Issuing Citations

This OPN provides guidance for conducting inspections and issuing citations associated with heat-related illness and potential heat-related illness in the workplace [NCGS) 95-129(1) - General Duty Clause]. Other standards referenced include 29 CFR 1926.21 - safety training and education, 29 CFR 1910.151 - medical services and first aid, 29 CFR 1926.50 - medical services and first aid, 29 CFR 1917.26 - first aid and life saving facilities, 29 CFR 1926.23 - first aid and medical attention, 29 CFR 1910.141 - sanitation, 29 CFR 1926.51 - sanitation, 29 CFR 1928.110 - field sanitation, 29 CFR 1904.39 -reporting fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye as a result of work-related incidents to OSHA, and 29 CFR 1910.132(d) PPE, general requirements

Also reference the safety and health topic page for Heat Stress, Medical Services and First Aid, Recording and Reporting and Personal Protective Equipment.