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How climate change is burning Kenya’s outdoor workers
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How climate change is burning Kenya’s outdoor workers | The-14

Climate change is burning Kenya’s outdoor workers, as rising heat and UV exposure drive skin damage, infections and late cancer diagnoses across the country.

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MagpieblogAug 14, 2024

' At the state level, trade groups and lobbyists leaned on [Florida] lawmakers to pass legislation blocking towns and cities from passing local heat-safety rules for outdoor workers....

The pressure worked and the bill [was] quickly signed into law by [Republican Gov.] Ron DeSantis ... The ban came into effect on 1 July as the heat index soared. '

#OutdoorWorkers #HealthAndSafety #HeatSafety #ClimateChange #Florida #MigrantWorkers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/aug/14/you-feel-like-youre-suffocating-florida-outdoor-workers-are-collapsing-in-the-heat-without-water-and-shade?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade

Florida has passed legislation banning local safety rules for outdoor workers, despite heat stress set to cost global economy $2.4tn by 2030

The Guardian
Peter RileyAug 14, 2024

“You feel like you’re suffocating” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/aug/14/you-feel-like-youre-suffocating-florida-outdoor-workers-are-collapsing-in-the-heat-without-water-and-shade

Heat Stress
https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/more-workers-ever-are-losing-fight-against-heat-stress

#Florida #heatstress #outdoorworkers
#healthandsafety

‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade

Florida has passed legislation banning local safety rules for outdoor workers, despite heat stress set to cost global economy $2.4tn by 2030

The Guardian
Show threadCelloMom On CarsApr 13, 2024

"In a bill #DeSantis signed Thursday, #Florida, one of the hottest states in the country, local governments will be banned from requiring heat and water breaks for #OutdoorWorkers.

It was a direct response to Miami-Dade County's effort to require shade and water for construction, farm and other outdoor workers."

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/desantis-bans-local-governments-from-protecting-workers-from-heat-and-limits-police-oversight-boards-2/

Gov. DeSantis bans local governments from protecting workers from heat, limits police oversight boards

Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis limiting the powers of local government with newly signed bills that deal with worker safety and police oversight.

CBS Miami
Charlie McHenrySep 24, 2023
Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers - The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard. #Labor #FarmWorkers #OutdoorWorkers #PublicHealth #FungalInfections #GlobalWarming #Disease https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/valley-fever-is-a-growing-fungal-threat-to-outdoor-workers/
Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers

The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard

Scientific American
CarolleisaAug 27, 2023
https://newrepublic.com/article/174946/outdoor-workers-climate-victims-labor-rights
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#HeatExposure kills 2,000 workers in the United States every year, according to a report released by Public Citizen in May, and many more—up to 170,000—suffer from serious heat-related injuries. Those numbers are almost certain to grow: Every one degree Celsius increase in temperature brings a 1 percent increase in such injuries. As the planet warms, many workplaces are becoming deadly infernos
Outdoor Workers Are Climate Victims

How extreme weather could unite the environmental and labor movements

The New Republic