Strategic Focus: Protecting Workers In A Hotter World
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Executive Summary
As climate change drives more frequent and intense heatwaves, workplace heat stress is becoming an increasingly significant occupational health and safety risk, requiring organizations to adopt more proactive approaches to protect workers. This report examines the factors driving greater worker exposure, the populations and working environments most at risk, and the health, safety, productivity and operational consequences of excessive heat. It assesses how organizations can strengthen heat-risk assessments and preventative controls, and highlights the growing role of digital technologies in monitoring conditions, which enable earlier intervention and integrate heat-risk management into wider EHS processes. EHS leaders should use this report to identify opportunities to strengthen worker protection, improve resilience and direct investment towards more data-driven approaches to heat-risk management.About the Authors
Entesar Khalil
Industry Analyst
Entesar is an Industry Analyst in the EHSQ team at Verdantix, delivering research on quality management technologies and the market trends shaping modern EHSQ functions. Speci...
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Nathan Goldstein
Senior Manager
Nathan is a Senior Manager at Verdantix, specializing in EHS software and the convergence of sustainability, EHS and operational risk. He leads research that helps corporate d...
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