OSHA and CAL sponsors a featured safety program known as Heat Illness Prevention. This program trains all employees and supervisors about heat illness prevention. It also provides enough fresh water so that each employee can drink at least 1 quart per hour, or four 8 ounce glasses, of water per hour, and encourage them to do so. Shade is also extremely important in order to prevent heat strokes. This health illness prevention program provides access to shade and encourages employees to take a cool-down rest in the shade for at least 5 minutes. Last but not least, this program develops and implements written procedures for complying with the Cal/OSHA Heat Illness Prevention Standard. I think this program is great especially for farmworkers who work long hours in the fields.
Found this interesting environmental health news article on cigarette butts in the ocean and how they not only harm the ocean, but also the marine life and us! These cigarette butts have filters made of cellulose acetate and "take a decade or longer to break down under ultraviolet light, which in turn disperses the toxic plastic into smaller bits." Makes me want to go to the ocean and clean up all the cigarette butts I see! News article: Cigarette butts are the biggest source of ocean garbage
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