"Yesterday, #California regulators voted to establish #heat protections for indoor workers for the first time.
#Florida proactively passed legislation that would block any future local #HeatProtections for workers, and #Texas passed a law to eliminate the bare minimum form of protection, mandated water breaks for construction workers.
Most states, though, simply have no laws on the books to address the risk of work-related heat illness."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/06/heat-working-heat-stress-death/678758/