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

The app has stopped working. The app no longer can find my location. I even put the location in manually, and it still will not give the heat index for the location. I tried clearing the data and uninstalling and reinstalling the app, but the app still does not work. I installed another app that gives the heat safety information I need.

Update: app appears to be working again, so update my review. One star left off for the inability to look farther than 12 hours in the future.App no longer works, can't get location data. Permissions checked, app Uninstalled and reinstalled with no luck. Used to be my go to and was wonderful for many years and I'm very disappointed to loose it. Hopefully they fix it soon

I'm sure this must be disappointing to hear, but counterintuitively this is a very uninformative app. At a glance I want to see the heat index or something similar and the hourly and daily forecast. The Qvyshift app does that well. I'm sure all the information you have is great information, and I hope I find it if I need it, but so far I have not been interested in it - I want the hourly and daily forecast at a glance. Thanks - David

What's new

Detects errors related to issues with the NOAA weather data source.