Introduction: Your Role in Heat Safety

Welcome. This training is about how supervisors keep their team safe from heat, and it is the Heat Illness Prevention course for California supervisors. Safety on a construction site comes from small choices made in the moment.

Picture midday on the site. A crew member tells you they have a headache and feel dizzy, but they want to finish the job first. You can let the worker finish, ask the worker to rest in the shade and ask how they feel, or send the worker home.

The following topics help you recognize heat illness in your team and use the protections your employer provides:

• Your role and the rules: what California expects of you as a supervisor.
• Water, shade and rest: how you keep them in place for your crew.
• Watching your team and the weather: how you notice trouble early.
• New workers and heat waves: who needs a closer look.
• When someone shows signs: what you do right away.

Which of these five covers what you do when a worker says they feel dizzy?

The answer is when someone shows signs. The rest of the training builds on the idea that heat illness can progress quickly from mild signs to serious and life-threatening illness, so a supervisor who acts early matters. Here’s where each one shows up at work: