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Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings

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National Association of Home Builders filed 5 comments on this docket between Nov 2, 2021 and Oct 31, 2025. 410 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 271d ago.

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Oct 31, 2025· Comment from Culligan, Jared; National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)· OSHA-2021-0009-25676

National Association of Home Builders' Post-Hearing Comment Submission on OSHA's Proposed Heat Standard.

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Feb 11, 2025· Comment from Harris, Carl; National Association of Home Builders of the United States (NAHB)· OSHA-2021-0009-24757

On behalf of the National Association of Home Builders of the United States, I am pleased to submit the attached comments in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's notice of proposed rulemaking on Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings that was published in the Federal Register on Aug. 30, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 70,698).

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Sep 17, 2024· Comment from Mannion, Brad; National Association of Home Builders· OSHA-2021-0009-6731

On behalf of the National Association of Home Builders of the United States, I respectfully request a 30-day extension of the current deadline for submitting written comments in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's notice of proposed rulemaking on Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings. Please see the attached request for more information.

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Dec 22, 2023· Comment from Asmus, Susan; National Association of Home Builders of the United States (NAHB)· OSHA-2021-0009-1655

On behalf of the National Association of Home Builders of the United States (NAHB), I am pleased to submit the attached comments in response to the U.S. Department of Labor's reopening of the comment period on its proposed standard for Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings. In addition, NAHB welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback directly to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration regarding the report on the potential rulemaking submitted by the Small Business Advocacy Review Panel in accordance with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996.

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Nov 2, 2021· Comment from Matuga, Robert; National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)· OSHA-2021-0009-0101

See attached file(s) October 27, 2021 James Frederick Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor Occupational Safety and Health U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20210 RE: Docket No. OSHA-2021-0009, Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings - Advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM): Request for Extension of Comment Period Dear Acting Assistant Secretary Frederick: On behalf of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), I respectfully request a sixty (60) day extension of the current deadline for submitting written comments in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) advance notice of proposed rulemaking on Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings that was published in the Federal Register on October 27, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 59309). NAHB believes that providing only 60 days to submit comments to the ANPRM does not provide the residential construction industry adequate time to gather, analyze, and provide the types of information OSHA is seeking. Extending the comment period by 60 days will help ensure that OSHA has the best data available as OSHA considers developing a standard, including the scope of the standard and the types of controls that might be required. NAHB is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association whose members are involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, property management, subcontracting, design, housing finance, building product manufacturing and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction. NAHB's builder members construct about 80 percent of the new housing units each year, making housing a large engine of economic growth nationally. As an interested stakeholder in this regulatory activity, NAHB is willing and eager to provide data and information that will assist OSHA in determining how to best protect construction workers from potentially hazardous heat and the nature and effectiveness of interventions and controls used to prevent heat-related injury and illness. NAHB believes that additional time is necessary to respond to this ANPRM for the following reasons: •OSHA has asked one-hundred fourteen (114) separate detailed questions, which requires careful review and discussion by home builders and specialty trade contractors in order to understand the possible ramifications and their application, and to identify, prepare and submit the requested data and information. •The ANPRM requires thoughtful analysis on wide-ranging topics from employers existing heat injury and illness prevention efforts to varying impacts of heat on geographic regions to engineering and administrative controls and personal protective equipment, to worker training to detailed economic impacts, particularly on small businesses. Each of these topics must be considered and input obtained from NAHB's diverse membership, which cannot be completed in a short, 60-day comment period. •Historically, OSHA's ANPRM is primarily used to gather information to help the Agency decide on what steps to take next in the rulemaking process. An extension of the comment period does not create a hardship for the Agency as there is no apparent, compelling reason for the current short 60-day deadline for submitting comments. •The current comment period ends on December 27, 2021. Given where the comment period falls on the calendar between two major federal government holidays—Thanksgiving and Christmas—it will be extremely difficult to obtain important feedback from home builders as this is a particularly busy time for builders who are wrapping up projects for year-end home closings and accounting purposes. For these reasons, we believe an extension of time of 60 additional days for submitting comments is necessary and appropriate. Offering meaningful comments on this ANPRM is extremely important to NAHB's members. Accordingly, NAHB urges OSHA to…

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Abstract

OSHA is proposing to issue a new standard, titled Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings. The standard would apply to all employers conducting outdoor and indoor work in all general industry, construction, maritime, and agriculture sectors where OSHA has jurisdiction, with some exceptions. It would be a programmatic standard that would require employers to create a plan to evaluate and control heat hazards in their workplace. It would more clearly set forth employer obligations and the measures necessary to effectively protect employees from hazardous heat.

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