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As Spring heats up rapidly in its last week we need to again be aware of working in extreme temperatures. Heat illnesses are silent killers as the person often doesn’t realize they’re at risk until it starts becoming severe.
Here are some great graphics from NPR to help keep aware of signs and symptoms of heat illness:

COMIC: How excessive heat kills and how to stay safe Human bodies have a natural cooling system, but it can do only so much in high temperatures and humidity. Here's the science behind how heat kills. And how to protect yourself.

Each year the heat and the humidity are hitting sooner and harder. We’ve already had high 70s & mid80s temps. Add in Springtime rain showers and all the actors are on set. Don’t take chances with deadly extreme temperature conditions download this handy tool for your smartphone.

It may mean the difference between survival and tragedy.

Heat Safety Tool | Occupational Safety and Health Administration Heat Safety Tool

2026 Dirty Dozen Release

Every year National COSH and the individual COSH organizations compile a list of the worst employers in America. These corporations have not just allowed the conditions to exist that has injured, made a worker ill or resulted in a worker dying on the job but have made the conscious choice that it’s the price they’re willing to pay for continued profits. The 2025 Dirty Dozen list can be found at https://nationalcosh.org/Dirty_Dozen.

This Wednesday, April 22 at 1pm CDT the 2026 Dirty Dozen edition will be released. Will your employer be on the list? Will your children’s employer be on the list? Join us by registering at https://default.salsalabs.org/Te285c4fe-e5d1-476a-8ed4-20dbfc15581f/40dd3c7d-770d-476e-9b49-2b32f319dae2.

Is your work safe?
Just because you haven’t been (seriously) injured doesn’t mean that there are no hazards present.

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Everyone thinks that their job is safe.
Every year 4,000-6,000 workers and their families are proven wrong when they don’t make it home again.
WisCOSH is here to help workers, and concerned employers, ensure every worker goes home at the end of shift as healthy and whole as they started the day.