The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing a number of new rules that all employers need to track and to be prepared to respond. Here is an update on four.
The United States is experiencing a summer of extreme heat, and new research is shedding more light on just how dangerous that can be for pregnant women. Being exposed to prolonged high temperatures – defined as 95 degrees Fahrenheit and higher for three or more consecutive days – can increase the risk of complications like sepsis, hemorrhage and clotting disorders by as much as 27% in pregnant women, according to new research published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study of over 400,000 pregnancies among women in Southern California also found that exposure to high heat during the last gestational week of a pregnancy increased the risk of life-threatening delivery complications.