Providing Water
Under both the outdoor and indoor heat illness standards, you must provide employees with free, ready access to fresh, pure, suitably cool, potable drinking water. The water must meet the requirements set forth in the California Code of Regulations, Title 8 Section 1524 (Water Supply), Section 3363 (Water Supply) and Section 3457 (Field Sanitation), as applicable.1
The water must be located as close as practicable to where employees are working and, for indoor areas, close to indoor cool-down areas required by the indoor heat illness standard. To ensure that water is fresh, pure and suitably cool, Cal/OSHA advises employers or
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