New York \u2014 New York City mayoral agencies must develop and implement heat illness prevention plans for city employees and contractors, as directed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in a June 22 Executive Order.<\/p>\n
The EO also directs the Department of Buildings to \u201creview and strengthen\u201d construction site heat safety requirements, with recommendations due by March 1.<\/p>\n
For outdoor workers, the EO directs three city departments \u2013 emergency management, health and mental hygiene, and citywide administrative services \u2013 \u201cto develop and distribute multilingual heat safety guidance \u2026 as soon as practicable this year.\u201d Guidance for indoor workers must be issued by March 1.<\/p>\n
A press release from the mayor\u2019s office adds: \u201cThe order also reinforces existing protections for outdoor workers, including access to bathrooms and workplace reporting requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is directed to evaluate whether heat illness is a reportable health condition for workers\u2019 compensation claims.<\/p>\n
The release points out that more than 1.4 million city workers, around a third of its workforce, spend \u201cextended periods\u201d working outdoors each summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one should have to choose between their paycheck and their health,\u201d Mamdani said in the release. \u201cThe workers building our skyline, delivering our packages, selling food on our street corners and keeping this city running deserve to come home safe at the end of every shift.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past, workers have borne the burden of extreme heat while government looked the other way. We\u2019re changing that because every worker\u2019s life is worth protecting. As summer heats up, we\u2019re taking a whole-of-government approach to keeping New Yorkers prepared, safe and cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York \u2014 New York City mayoral agencies must develop and implement heat illness prevention plans for city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3991,105991,105992,105714,92766,101975,9,24,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-275514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-heat","tag-heat-illness","tag-heat-protection","tag-heat-stress","tag-heat-stroke","tag-heat-related-illnesses","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}