{"id":37162,"date":"2025-01-14T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37162"},"modified":"2025-01-14T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:56:20","slug":"nalc-submits-comments-on-oshas-proposed-heat-safety-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/nalc-submits-comments-on-oshas-proposed-heat-safety-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC submits comments on OSHA\u2019s proposed heat safety rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; 1\/13\/25 &#8211; Last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a proposed rule on heat injury and illness prevention. The agency accepted public comments on the proposed rule through Jan. 14. NALC submitted comments that are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/body\/1_9_25-NALCs-comment-on-OSHA-heat-safety-standard.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An informal public hearing on the proposed rule is scheduled for June 16. The complete proposed rule is available in the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2024\/08\/30\/2024-14824\/heat-injury-and-illness-prevention-in-outdoor-and-indoor-work-settings\">Federal Register<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNALC has fought for years to protect letter carriers from the increasing dangers of excessive heat,\u201d NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. \u201cThis proposed national standard is the ultimate solution to achieve that protection for letter carriers and other workers who are exposed to heat while on the job. We appreciate OSHA\u2019s commitment to this necessary regulation and stand ready to help in any way possible to move this proposed rule forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-29065\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NALC1aa-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; 1\/13\/25 &#8211; Last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a proposed rule on heat injury and illness prevention. The agency accepted public comments on the proposed rule through Jan. 14. NALC submitted comments that are available here. An informal public hearing on the proposed rule is scheduled for June 16. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37163,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37162\/revisions\/37163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}