In August 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed a new Heat Standard mandate on indoor and outdoor work settings that would place additional compliance costs and regulatory burden on small businesses if implemented. The mandate would force small businesses nationwide to implement heat control measures, create emergency heat-related response plans, routinely train personnel, provide paid 15-minute breaks every two hours, actively supervise employees, and engage in burdensome recordkeeping.

The proposed Heat Standard fails to recognize that small businesses are already required to prevent temperature-related harm to employees and punishes small businesses with more paperwork and government mandates. Learn more about this issue and take action to stop this additional federal regulation.