Heat Stress

High Temperatures Predicted this Coming Week – Ways to Prevent Heat Stress

June 2, 2025 – Plant and Pest Advisory – Michelle Infante-Casella, Kate Brown, Stephen Komar and Bill Bamka

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Heat exposure for agricultural laborers should be a consideration when working outside and even innon-air-conditioned buildings. When a person’s ability to adapt to heat stress is exceeded, exposurecan lead to reduced productivity, mistakes in job performance, increased workplace incidents, and/orheat-related illnesses. Each person’s heat tolerance varies and several factors including type of physicalactivity, fitness level, […]

Heat Stress Inspections

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Kate Brown, Chair of Farm Health and Safety Working Group for RutgersCooperative Extension, informed us that an OSHA inspector conducteda 3.5-hour inspection which included worker interviews, wet bulb globetemperature recordings, and a complete evaluation of heat stress preventionpractices in the Hammonton area last week. Every grower should be awareon how to protect your workers from […]

Webinars: Don’t Sweat Heat Stress in Agriculture

Plant & Pest Advisory- May 9, 2024- Kate Brown

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The New Jersey Legislature is currently reviewing identical bills (A3521/S2422) which would establish an occupational heat stress standard and “Occupational Heat-Related Illness and Injury Prevention Program” under the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development. As we monitor the progress of these bills, the Farm Health and Safety Working Group of Rutgers Cooperative Extension has […]