OSHA, the federal agency charged with protecting you on the job, can do little or nothing if your boss orders you to work outside in the searing summer sun.
In another lifetime I worked for an MSP that would perform network services for local industries. One of our customers, a lumber processing plant, needed ethernet drops for some fancy new controllers for their kilns. I count that job as one of the worst experiences in my career due to the heat alone. It was the middle of July, pulling 12 hour days next to giant furnaces in tin shacks. I probably lost 30 pounds in sweat alone on that job. I could wring out my shirt and jeans at the end of each day. It was absolute misery. I have no idea how the guys who actually worked there each day could do it
Heat is no joke, and I find it appalling that we have nothing in place to protect people from it
In another lifetime I worked for an MSP that would perform network services for local industries. One of our customers, a lumber processing plant, needed ethernet drops for some fancy new controllers for their kilns. I count that job as one of the worst experiences in my career due to the heat alone. It was the middle of July, pulling 12 hour days next to giant furnaces in tin shacks. I probably lost 30 pounds in sweat alone on that job. I could wring out my shirt and jeans at the end of each day. It was absolute misery. I have no idea how the guys who actually worked there each day could do it
Heat is no joke, and I find it appalling that we have nothing in place to protect people from it