Department of Labor and Industry
Safety and Health Codes Board
Heat Illness Prevention Standard
[16 VAC 25 ‑ 210]
(Under Development)
On this Action:
CLOSED Opened on 5/10/2021 and Ended on 6/9/2021
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145 comments
| Comment Title | Commenter | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat Stress Standard | Hillary Horn, Temple Rodef Shalom Social Action Committee | 6/9/21 11:50 pm |
| Please Protect Workers | Hannah | 6/9/21 11:45 pm |
| Worker Protections against HEAT risks | Patty McGrath, Montgomery County Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions | 6/9/21 11:43 pm |
| Heat Stress | Shelia Porter | 6/9/21 11:42 pm |
| Heat illness prevention | Lee Anne Williams Green New Deal Virginia | 6/9/21 11:41 pm |
| State neeeds occupational health heat protections for workers in absence of federal rules | Robert V Poignant, Jr. | 6/9/21 11:26 pm |
| Heat Stress Standard /Vice President VICPP | Anonymous (99075) | 6/9/21 11:13 pm |
| Heat Illness Prevention Standard [under development] [16 VAC 25 ? 210] | Carolyn Caywood | 6/9/21 11:13 pm |
| Please create heat illness protections for at-risk workers | Catherine Saunders | 6/9/21 10:47 pm |
| Protecting outdoor workers from heat stress | Shirin Wertime | 6/9/21 10:46 pm |
| Heat and Stress Standards for the VA Safety and Health Codes Boards | Joanne R Hutton | 6/9/21 10:37 pm |
| Support for Regulations Protecting Workers from Heat Stress | Maggie McCain | 6/9/21 10:30 pm |
| Heat Stress Regulations | Robert Shields, Accotink UU Church. Universal Unitarians for Social Justice | 6/9/21 9:59 pm |
| Protect workers | Anonymous (99068) | 6/9/21 9:43 pm |
| Honoring the Board’s pledge to adopt strong heat standards | Herschell Emery, VCU faculty (retired) | 6/9/21 9:39 pm |
| Heat Illnesses | Robin D Mines | 6/9/21 9:28 pm |
| Protect Against Heat Stress | Anonymous (99065) | 6/9/21 9:27 pm |
| Address heat illness | Anonymous (99064) | 6/9/21 9:26 pm |
| Standards for heat exposure and related health risks | Janet Lipscomb | 6/9/21 9:24 pm |
| Heat Stress | brian James christoffersen | 6/9/21 9:17 pm |
| Protect Farm Workers from Heat Stroke | Dana Palmer | 6/9/21 9:09 pm |
| Support Heat Illness Prevention Standard, 16VAC25-210 | Steve Sallman, USW | 6/9/21 8:56 pm |
| I believe that Virginia’s workers need emergency regulations to ensure their safety in the workplace | Carol E Thompson-Nelson | 6/9/21 8:55 pm |
| protect workers from excessive heat | Margaret Rubin | 6/9/21 8:53 pm |
| In support of the development of strong heat stress standards to protect workers | Susie Cambria | 6/9/21 8:48 pm |
| Heat stress on employees | Margaret V. Lee | 6/9/21 8:47 pm |
| Heat Stress Standards to Protect Workers | Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy | 6/9/21 8:42 pm |
| Virginia should adopt a clear, strong Heat Illness Prevention Standard to save lives | Juley Fulcher, Public Citizen | 6/9/21 8:39 pm |
| Please develop regulations addressing heat illness | Riverly Twardy | 6/9/21 8:33 pm |
| Manufacturing Workers & Heat Stress | Jessica D Wright | 6/9/21 8:23 pm |
| strong standards/regulations for addressing heat illness to protect workers needed | Dr. Rachel Levy | 6/9/21 8:22 pm |
| Stop heat stress for workers | Charlotte Shnaider | 6/9/21 8:14 pm |
| Heat Stress | Roy Wilensky | 6/9/21 8:13 pm |
| Comments on Heat Stress Standards to the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board | Elizabeth Struthers Malbon | 6/9/21 8:02 pm |
| Protect Workers | Melanie Smith | 6/9/21 8:00 pm |
| Heat Stress Standards | Meredith Gross | 6/9/21 7:55 pm |
| Heat Stress | Anonymous (99045) | 6/9/21 7:47 pm |
| Heat Stress | Dana Connor, Aldie UMW | 6/9/21 7:39 pm |
| We have concerns about Virginia developing a heat illness standard apart from OSHA | Tom Tracy PhD, Virginia Turfgrass Council | 6/9/21 7:36 pm |
| The need for heat stress protections for workers | Linda J. Dillon | 6/9/21 7:35 pm |
| Yes to heat regulation to protect farmworkers | Susan Kuhn | 6/9/21 7:29 pm |
| Strongly Support | Greg A Garland | 6/9/21 7:26 pm |
| Heat condition in work environments | Anonymous (99039) | 6/9/21 7:25 pm |
| Government controlling workers ability to make money and make life choices | S T | 6/9/21 7:15 pm |
| Regulations for at-risk workers | Michele Andersen | 6/9/21 7:12 pm |
| Comment in Response to Virginia Department of Labor and Industry/Safety and Health Codes Board NOIRA | Farmworker Justice | 6/9/21 7:05 pm |
| Heat Stress Protections | Tonya Osinkosky | 6/9/21 6:58 pm |
| if heat is the problem the golf courses should shut down every hour | Anonymous (99033) | 6/9/21 6:34 pm |
| Strong regulations needed | Emily Lopynski | 6/9/21 6:31 pm |
| Protect Workers from Excessive Hear | Anonymous (99030) | 6/9/21 6:17 pm |
| Protect Virginia Workers / Protejan a los Trabajadores de Virginia | Manuel Gago | 6/9/21 6:11 pm |
| strong standards/regulations for addressing heat illness to protect farmworkers and others at risk | Stephen and Diana Ruth | 6/9/21 5:53 pm |
| Heat Illness safety precautions for outdoor workers | Charlene Yang | 6/9/21 5:53 pm |
| heat effects on outdoor workers | Ellie Syverud | 6/9/21 5:51 pm |
| Heat-related work conditions | Janet Curtis | 6/9/21 5:49 pm |
| Heat Relief Measures | Kim Della Puca | 6/9/21 5:44 pm |
| Please help workers exposed to high temperatures outdoors and indoors | Martha Martin | 6/9/21 5:28 pm |
| Heat Stress Standards | Marie Stella | 6/9/21 5:23 pm |
| Heat Illness Protection for Workers. | Cristeena G Naser | 6/9/21 5:15 pm |
| Adopt Heat Stress Standards | Kathy Desmond | 6/9/21 5:02 pm |
| Support Heat Illness Prevention Standard | Eunice Salcedo, AFSCME | 6/9/21 4:33 pm |
| VRLTA Comments re NOIRA on Heat Illness Prevention Standard [16 VAC – 210]. | Robert Melvin, Virginia Restaurant, Lodging & Travel Association | 6/9/21 4:29 pm |
| Comprehensive Regulation Does Not Fit | JON LAWSON, Vindicated Environmental, LLC | 6/9/21 2:09 pm |
| Protecting Virginia workers in a changing climate | Narissa Turner on behalf of the Virginia Conservation Network | 6/9/21 1:47 pm |
| Heat Illness | Robert | 6/9/21 12:52 pm |
| Support heat stress standards in VA! | Amanda Silcox | 6/9/21 12:40 pm |
| Comments of Virginia's Electric Cooperatives | Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives | 6/9/21 12:16 pm |
| NRDC Support for Heat Illness Prevention Standard (16VAC25-210) | Juanita Constible | 6/9/21 11:22 am |
| Support Heat Illness Prevention Standard, 16VAC25-210 | Doris Crouse-Mays, Virginia AFL-CIO | 6/9/21 10:20 am |
| Comments on Heat Illness Prevention Standard | Delmarva Chicken Association | 6/9/21 9:55 am |
| Virginians need heat stress protections | Rachel McFarland; Legal Aid Justice Center | 6/9/21 9:24 am |
| Supporting Heat Stress Standards in VA | Paul Berry, Virginia Latino Advisory Board | 6/9/21 9:16 am |
| Heat Stress Conditions | Yohance Whitaker | 6/9/21 7:03 am |
| Heat Protection for Outdoor Workers | Kathleen Price, Virginia Clinicians For Climate Action | 6/8/21 10:42 pm |
| SUPORT Heat Stress Standards in VA | Thalia Hernandez | 6/8/21 9:14 pm |
| Protecting workers from heat stress | Nicholas Snow, MD | 6/8/21 8:39 pm |
| Research in support of Virginia's Heat Stress Standard | Ronda McCarthy, MD, MPH, FACOEM | 6/8/21 6:10 pm |
| Additional regulations, Heat | Charlie Marcotte | 6/8/21 5:34 pm |
| Heat standards for workers | Kristine | 6/8/21 5:08 pm |
| VTCA Comments on Notice of Intended Regulatory Action - Heat Illness Prevention | VA Transportation Construction Alliance | 6/8/21 5:01 pm |
| Virginia cannot wait for OSHA or Congress to take possible future action. | Jess Gabbay | 6/8/21 4:25 pm |
| TCI Comments on Heat Stress Protections | Ashley Kenneth, The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis | 6/8/21 4:25 pm |
| NO on 16VAC25-210 | Anonymous (98987) | 6/8/21 3:50 pm |
| Protect Workers Against Heat Illness | Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action | 6/8/21 3:33 pm |
| Doli Heat | Bill Ragland | 6/8/21 3:17 pm |
| Concerns about Additional Virginia Regulations on Heat | Associated General Contractors of Virginia | 6/8/21 3:09 pm |
| Heat Regulations | Gary Eavers | 6/8/21 2:56 pm |
| VFA Comments on Heat Illness NOIRA | Virginia Forestry Association | 6/8/21 2:48 pm |
| heat | Ray Bowes | 6/8/21 2:44 pm |
| We do not need any more burdensome regulations | Anonymous (98980) | 6/8/21 2:32 pm |
| Government Over Reach | Joe Kouten | 6/8/21 2:08 pm |
| Heat Stress Standard | Cora Roelofs, University of Massachusetts Lowell | 6/8/21 1:38 pm |
| Oppose | George Wallace | 6/8/21 1:38 pm |
| UA Local 5 Plumbers and Gasfitters supports the Heat Illness Prevention Standard | Lou Spencer UA Local 5 Plumbers and Gasfitters | 6/8/21 11:52 am |
| Continue to Review or Oppose Heat Illness Prevention Standards | Ross Snare, Prince William Chamber of Commerce | 6/8/21 11:09 am |
| Heat Stress Regulations are Necessary | Lucy Parks | 6/8/21 11:00 am |
| worker heat protection | Homan Wai, Virginia clinicians for climate action | 6/8/21 10:15 am |
| Requiring the proposed protections from heat illnesses for outdoor workers | Marcia Geyer | 6/8/21 9:58 am |
| Heat Illness | Anonymous (98965) | 6/8/21 9:25 am |
| NOIRA Regarding Heat Illness in At-Risk Workers | Bruce Burton | 6/7/21 12:25 pm |
| Regulations on heat illness prevention for workers | Eve Schwartz | 6/7/21 11:58 am |
| Protecting Virginia's workers from extreme heat | Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action | 6/7/21 11:17 am |
| Heat illness prevention regulations are reasonable and necessary | Jerome A. Paulson, MD, FAAP | 6/7/21 10:44 am |
| Setting standards to address heat on the job | Mary Barhydt | 6/6/21 3:34 pm |
| Concerns over outdoor employee regulations | Sarah WhiteYHR Holdings | 6/5/21 4:01 pm |
| AIHA Support for Heat Illness Prevention Standard | Mark Ames, AIHA | 6/4/21 3:55 pm |
| adopt permanent safety standard for Virginia workers | Maria Clymer Kurtz | 6/4/21 3:16 pm |
| Heat Stress Standards for Workers | Ed Kringer | 6/4/21 11:10 am |
| Heat Illness | RSH | 6/4/21 8:44 am |
| Heat Illness | Leigh Eicher | 6/4/21 8:27 am |
| Heat illness regulations for outdoor workers | Madeline Helbraun | 6/4/21 8:22 am |
| Heat illness regulations | John Peterson | 6/4/21 7:25 am |
| Protect at Risk Workers from Heat | Emily Little | 6/3/21 11:12 pm |
| Town hall user policy | John Richard, mt Zion Baptist church | 6/3/21 10:22 pm |
| Heat Illness Prevention | Anonymous (98938) | 6/3/21 5:48 pm |
| Policy re: Heat Illness | Ruth E Stewart | 6/3/21 5:16 pm |
| Worker heat protections are needed | Samantha Ahdoot, MD. Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action | 6/3/21 3:55 pm |
| Celanese Corporation's Comments on Notice of Intended Regulatory Action on Heat Illness Prevention | Celanese Corporation | 6/3/21 3:25 pm |
| Heat Illness | Addie Peterson, New Horizons Presbyterian Church | 6/3/21 2:01 pm |
| Regulations to Prevent Heat Stress | Kimberly Emery | 6/3/21 12:38 pm |
| Preventing Heat Stroke Among Agricultural and Indoor Workers | Rea Howarth | 6/3/21 11:49 am |
| proposed NOIRA | Mary Helen Sullivan | 6/3/21 11:28 am |
| Please issue regulations to address heat illness | Tara Casey | 6/3/21 11:16 am |
| protect our essential workers | Ann Hess | 6/3/21 10:40 am |
| Heat illness worker protections | Sarah Wiles | 6/3/21 9:57 am |
| Heat Illness | Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church | 6/3/21 9:45 am |
| Support regarding Heat Related Illness | Allison Peterson | 6/3/21 9:21 am |
| protection of workers from heat distress and illnes | Jo Marie Griesgraber | 6/3/21 9:17 am |
| Heat illness protections | Lou Fisher | 6/3/21 9:16 am |
| Heat illness prevention | Charles Swadley | 6/3/21 7:54 am |
| please extend ETS permanently to protect front line workers. They deserve it and we need them. | David H Teschner | 6/3/21 7:31 am |
| HEAT ILLNESS | Mary Keene | 6/3/21 1:21 am |
| Heat illness | Glynis A Barber | 6/3/21 12:09 am |
| Heat Illness Prevention | Jacqueline H Dwyer | 6/2/21 10:47 pm |
| Protect farmworkers from heat illnesses | Ginge Sivigny | 6/2/21 9:57 pm |
| Heat illness regulations | Jennie L Waering, Central Church of the Brethren | 6/2/21 9:49 pm |
| Protections from Heat Illness | Marlene Dakita | 6/2/21 9:48 pm |
| Regulation on Heat Illness | Sheila Kryston | 6/2/21 8:54 pm |
| Heat Illness | Cristeena G Naser | 6/2/21 8:21 pm |
| Doli heat illness prevention | Rva hospitality | 6/2/21 7:14 am |
| unfair | tim cook / A Auto body | 5/27/21 9:56 am |
| Unreasonable, unnecessary, and unfair | Daniel Chahel | 5/27/21 8:39 am |
| Heat | Bill Ragland | 5/27/21 8:25 am |
| Heat Prevention Regulation is unrealistic | Scott | 5/27/21 7:58 am |
| What? | Bob | 5/26/21 12:13 pm |
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