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Heat stress in agriculture .

Articles

• Battling heat stress in the 2008 legal context
• Ten key points about heat stress
• UC Cooperative Extension offers tips to help people and animals survive the summer heat
• UC Cooperative Extension helps farm employers and workers meet challenges of heat stress
• UC gives tips for coping with heat stress
• Heat illness symptoms and first aid

Additional resources

• Audio heat stress messages are available on AsisTel by calling 1-800-514-4494.
  The messages related to heat stress are:
  No. 161- Why heat stress happens
  No. 162 - How to avoid heat related illnesses
  No. 163 - Employers role in combating workers’ heat stress
  No. 164 - Heat stress doesn’t only happen in hot weather
• Heat stress field education card (pdf)

Key points about heat stress are compiled concisely in Spanish and English on pocket-sized fold-out cards for distribution to California’s outdoor agricultural labor force. Farm Bureau is coordinating distribution by offering free supplies of cards to agricultural employers statewide. To order copies, contact Danielle Rau at drau@cfbf.com, (800) 698-3276, Ext. 5596. The card may be downloaded in pdf format.