re: OSHA new heat stress rules

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Units from the SE had a much easier time acclimating to the sandbox. Dry heat can still take it out of you, but humidity is a killer for evaporative cooling. I saw a guy from the 10th Mountain Div have an issue on the damn flight line after they got off the transport, because they left Ft Drum in January and stepped off the plane in Panama in January, and it was a system shock.

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Very few people voluntarily spend a lot of time in heat and humidity today...in the summer most people stay in the AC as much as possible. 50 years ago that was not as common...we spent more time out of the AC because there just wasn't as much AC. People are less heat tolerant today...it takes a minute to get acclimated to high heat and humidity...and the more one is exposed to it the more they can tolerate it. Given the lack of competent tradesmen and skilled labor across all industries most employers who are interested in making money and doing so for more than a few years are taking steps to mitigate this reality without any input from any agency...it is the fly by night shysters relying on cheap customers and corner cutting who make OSHA necessary. Even at that there is one OSHA inspector for every 70,000 workers covered in the US. It would take about 80 years for every worksite in the US today to have an OSHA inspector on site for 15 minutes. Only shysters fear OSHA or feel it is too much regulation...legitimate employees do it because it is necessary to remain in business, not because they fear OSHA...