This CD-ROM is designed to give agricultural employers in California a handy reference to Cal/OSHA's Heat Illness Prevention regulation §3395.

Background

In August 2005, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board promulgated an emergency standard, which took effect August 22, 2005 to regulate heat illness prevention. The objective of the emergency standard proposed to significantly reduce both the frequency and the severity of occupational heat-related illness in all outdoor places of employment.

On December 15, 2005 the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board extended the emergency regulation for another 120 days, expiring on April 20, 2006.

A permanent regulation was approved by OSHSB on June 15, 2006 and became effective on July 27, 2006. Click here to read the permanent regulation.

This guide to the new regulation will provide agricultural employers with helpful materials to assist them in complying with the regulation. In addition to the actual regulation, the guide contains an analysis of the regulation, training materials and sample procedures.

Some of the material in this guide are Acrobat Portable Document Files (pdf) and are identified by the Acrobat PDF logo. To view these files you must install the Acrobat reader. See CD-ROM Instructions below. Also, this guide contains Internet links to other sources of information regarding the regulation. These links are identified by a "globe" icon. In order to access these links you must be connected to the Internet.

Suggestions to improve this guide are welcomed.

Published by Farm Employers Labor Service

A subsidiary company of California Farm Bureau Federation

Copyright 2006 Farm Employers Labor Service (FELS®)
All Rights reserved. This publication may not be reproduced in whole or in part
without the express written permission of the copyright owner.

CD-ROM Instructions

Many files on this CD-ROM require the Adobe Acrobat Reader which are indicated by the logo. To download this software, click the appropriate link below:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.01 for Win 98, 200, XP
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.05 for Win 95
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01 for Win 3.1

Links to the Internet are indicated by In order to access these links you must be connected to the Internet.

More information about the software available on this CD -ROM is available in the readme.txt file

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