Indoor Heat Illness Prevention and Response Fact Sheet

Work in hot indoor environments can result in heat illness, a group of medical conditions caused by the body’s inability to cope with heat. Heat illness includes heat cramps, heat exhaustion, fainting, and heat stroke.

University employees who work in high-heat indoor locations may be at risk for heat illness including, but not limited to, maintenance workers, cooks, researchers and others. Supervisors are responsible for ensuring that the measures outlined in this Indoor Heat Illness Prevention and Response fact sheet are taken to prevent heat illness among employees and completing the Work Planning and Site Checklist to document that controls are in place whenever indoor temperatures are expected to reach 82°F or higher.