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Last action · January 9, 2025

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Introduced January 7, 2025

Senate

Adjourned Sine Die

2025 Regular Session

SB49

AN ACT relating to heat injury prevention.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and procedures to be followed when an employee is suffering from a heat illness; establish a penalty for a violation.

Local Mandate Environment and Conservation Health and Medical Services Labor and Industry Occupational Safety and Health Small Business Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Agriculture Workforce

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This bill would require employers in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to have a written plan in place for preventing and responding to heat illness among workers. The plan must inform employees of the steps to take if someone is suffering from heat-related illness. Employers who do not comply would face a penalty. Who it may affect: workers and employers in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation.

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