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How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives

KFF Health News

But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Both estimates are upsetting, said Linda McCauley, dean of the nursing school at Emory University and an occupational health researcher. The proposed rules — a heat standard from OSHA — reaches a milestone Dec.