{"id":524,"date":"2021-07-27T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=524"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:09:53","slug":"oregon-and-washington-issue-heat-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2021\/07\/27\/oregon-and-washington-issue-heat-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon and Washington Issue Heat Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Heat-Thermometer-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1738\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Heat-Thermometer-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Heat-Thermometer-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Heat-Thermometer-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Oregon<\/strong>: On July 8, 2021, Oregon\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Oregon OSHA) adopted emergency Heat Illness Prevention rules to establish workplace heat safety requirements that apply when temperatures in a work area reach or exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The rules are effective immediately. <br><em>Littler Insight:<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/oregon-osha-issues-temporary-heat-standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon OSHA Issues Temporary Heat Standard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington<\/strong>: On July 9, 2021, Washington\u2019s Department of Labor &amp; Industries filed an emergency rule to increase protection for employees exposed to extreme heat at work. This includes employees working in agriculture, construction, and other outdoor industries. The new regulations took effect on July 13, 2021.<br><em>Littler Insight:<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/washington-becomes-second-state-issue-emergency-heat-standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Becomes Second State to Issue Emergency Heat Standard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon: On July 8, 2021, Oregon\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Oregon OSHA) adopted emergency Heat Illness Prevention rules to establish workplace heat safety requirements that apply when temperatures in a work area reach or exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The rules are effective immediately. Littler Insight: Oregon OSHA Issues Temporary Heat Standard Washington: On July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}