( ) — UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “in the U.S.” State and federal agencies are scrambling to find measures to combat rising heat deaths and injuries of people who work in triple-digit temperatures. [CutID: <Cuts> WORKERS-EXTREME-HEAT-house-q-MONam.mp3 Time: 18s Title: WORKERS-EXTREME-HEAT-house-q-MONam Out-cue: in the U-S] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. ——————————- VERBATIM: State and federal governments […]
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Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in U.S.
( ) — UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “in the U.S.”
State and federal agencies are scrambling to find measures to combat rising heat deaths and injuries of people who work in triple-digit temperatures.
[CutID: <Cuts> WORKERS-EXTREME-HEAT-house-q-MONam.mp3
Time: 18s
Title: WORKERS-EXTREME-HEAT-house-q-MONam
Out-cue: in the U-S]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: State and federal governments have long implemented federal procedures for environmental risks, namely drought, flood and wildfires. But extreme heat protections for workers have generally lagged. Complicating attempts to address the issue is the absence of one national standard for measuring heat deaths in the U.S.