OSHA NIOSH Heat Safety Tool

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

About this app

Take precautions against outdoor heat while at work with the OSHA-NIOSH Heat Safety Tool. Featuring real-time heat index and hourly forecasts, specific to your location, as well as occupational safety and health recommendations from OSHA and NIOSH. The OSHA-NIOSH Heat Safety Tool is a useful resource for planning outdoor work activities based on how hot it feels throughout the day.

The OSHA-NIOSH Heat Safety Tool features:

• A visual indicator of the current heat index and associated risk levels specific to your current geographical location

• Precautionary recommendations specific to heat index-associated risk levels

• An interactive, hourly forecast of heat index values, risk level, and recommendations for planning outdoor work activities in advance

• Editable location, temperature, and humidity controls for calculation of variable conditions

• Signs and symptoms of heat-related illnesses including: heat stroke, heat exhaustion, rhabdomyolysis, heat cramps, and heat rash

• First aid information for heat-related illnesses

Take steps to work safely in the heat. Download this valuable tool today!

Ratings and reviews

Whether you're dealing with outdoor workers, sports teams, or the family outing, this app is a must have. NOTE: The app gives current heat index and controls for your current location. To see what the risks and controls are at the peek of the day, you can click on the "Hourly" icon at the bottom of the app or type in the forecast temp and humidity and specific location you'll be in at that time.

This used to work wonderfully. I've relied on this app for many years. However, in the past few months, it has become totally unreliable....and I mean off by "miles", not just a few degrees! I'm going to assume it has something to do with the govt. cuts. But, at this point, it's useless, and I'm going to have to uninstall it.

App was working well, but now has just stopped working for some reason. won't read my location, and won't allow you to imput a location. Just keeps saying there's an error and doesn't have location data. Needs to be fixed.

What's new

Uses the new NOAA Weather API Service.