Scope and Application: Outdoor Workplace vs. Indoor Workplace

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Cal/OSHA regulations contain separate standards addressing heat illness prevention for outdoor and indoor settings, each with its own scope and application defined in the regulation and further clarified by Cal/OSHA's guidance.

Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Standard

The outdoor heat illness standard applies only to “outdoor places of employment.”1

Sometimes what’s considered an outdoor place of employment is obvious. For example, outdoor places of employment clearly include open spaces:

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