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Greg Abbott Axes Water For Texas Construction Workers Amid 3-Digit Temperatures (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by VexCatalyst@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] deedasmi@lemmy.timdn.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

10 minutes to cool down and hydrate every four hours.

This was the laws they found so egregious that they had to overrule them at the state level? I work at a desk in my temperature controlled house where I get to set the AC and I take ten minutes every couple hours to stretch and hydrate.

[–] Sunspot@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I work an outdoor job in another hot state. We typically take a water and shade break every forty-five minutes or so for about fifteen minutes. Not having those breaks, especially when we're in head to toe PPE, would kill most of us and we're used to it.