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Are there any OSHA regulations regarding warehouse temperatures?

My wife works in an warehouse and there is NO AIR and NO HEAT. So in the summer she is about to faint of heat stroke and in the winter she can't feel her fingers it so cold. What can she do?

Public Comments

1. Talk to a lawyer about it
2. how does the warehouse know when it is summer and when it is winter?
3. Employers are not obligated to heat or provide air conditioning. They do have heat stress and cold stress guides that employees should be trained in to avoid temperature related problems. Employers have to provide adequate water and breaks for consuming it as per the OSHA Heat Stress guide but other than that there is little in the way of regulation concerning HVAC requirements for warehouses.
4. sounds like a wonderful place to work wouldn't be walmart would it. All the workers need to form a union and force the employer into better work conditions. God know your government wouldn't help OSHA a joke
5. Jesi is right and......Tom is an idiot. There's no regulations on temperature because people HAVE TO work in extreme temperatures. What might be downright "intolerable" for an office worker might be just another day for an Alaskan pipeline worker, or a construction worker during an Arizona summer. - not to mention those working on forklifts in big freezers at warehouses like I've seen - they just have to wear the appropriate clothing.