Mar
18
2024
Concerned about heat stress at work? If you have ever experienced symptoms like a skin rash, light-headedness, or nausea or vomiting during / after working in the heat, you may…
Mar
15
2024
COMING SOON! OHCOW has partnered with CROSH to review and update the existing Heat Stress Awareness Guide. With the help of the Ontario Health and Safety Prevention System partners…
Feb
28
2024
This 4-page infographic outlines a 6-step action plan that can be used when dealing with heat stress situations. It provides guidance on how and where to measure the heat…
Feb
28
2024
Heat stress is both an indoor and outdoor concern. This 2-page infographic from OHCOW covers the conditions, symptoms, and steps for action that should be used in heat stress…
Feb
28
2024
Assessing the risk of heat stress takes into account the main contributing factors, metabolic rates, as well as job / work classifications. This infographic from OHCOW covers these items…
Feb
28
2024
Heat stress is an occupational illness that can have both short- and long-term (even life-threatening) effects. Learn more about the primary contributing factors, the effects on your body's major…
Feb
28
2024
Acclimatization is one of the most effective ways to protect your body from heat stress. This 3-page infographic from OHCOW outlines the steps you can take to acclimatize yourself…
Feb
27
2024
Heat illness is serious and gets worse quickly. This infographic outlines what happens to your body's major organs when your body gets too hot. From a simple heat rash…
Feb
27
2024
This new infographic-style poster from OHCOW outlines the dangers of heat stress as well as the many warning signs and symptoms. It also highlights steps you can take to protect…
Feb
27
2024
This new poster from OHCOW promotes the importance of heat stress as a life-threatening occupational illness and highlights the many short and long term effects it can have on our…
Aug
03
2023
DATE RECORDED: Friday, August 18 As the climate emergency becomes more evident, heat and humidity are affecting more of us, sometimes fatally. OHCOW's recent heat…
Jun
27
2023
Produced by OHCOW, this 4-page infographic covers the signs and symptoms of heat stress, presents ideas for action if you or someone else shows symptoms as well as prevention…
