The Korey Stringer Institute (KSI) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) has unveiled a new state-of-the-art facility to ...

Heat exposure killed 55 workers across all industries in 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2021 and 2022, nearly 5,000 people suffered heat-related injuries or illnesses that ...

Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, ...

The research found that state rules requiring water and rest breaks when it’s hot address a wide range of dangers. Workplace protections against heat-related illnesses can also reduce a raft of other ...

The creation of the new Heat Stress Advisory Council comes as extreme heat waves pose dangers to outdoor workers in ...

These are the cruelest days of harvest, when the sun turns fields into slow ovens and the heat climbs before breakfast, holding on until the stars are out. By nightfall, the damage is done: another ...

With an increasing intensity and severity of heat waves in the U.S., Rutgers Health researchers, in collaboration with the ...

Those hot summer shifts on the job could get a little easier thanks to researchers at UConn. The Korey Stringer Institute ...

Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks. By Somini Sengupta and Hisako Ueno Somini ...

Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related work fatalities in the United States, with construction workers accounting for more than a third of all heat-related deaths. As average daily ...