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Webinar | The Heat Is On: Protecting Worker Health And Safety In A Changing Climate
Climate change is rapidly becoming one of the most significant occupational safety and health challenges of our time. Rising temperatures, extreme weather, poor air quality and the spread of climate-related diseases are creating new and intensifying risks for workers across all sectors.
Join us as Ruth Wilkinson, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at IOSH, explores the growing impact of climate change on worker health, safety and wellbeing, drawing on IOSH’s white paper, The heat is on.
This session covered:
- Climate change and health & safety: the UK picture
- How other countries are regulating related OHS
- The workers most at risk from climate-related risks
- How organisations can identify, assess and manage climate-related risks using established occupational safety and health principles
- Practical measures to protect workers and strengthen organisational resilience
- The social and economic consequences of inaction
- The role of employers, policy makers and OSH professionals in adapting to a changing climate and supporting a just and sustainable transition