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Program Overview

The primary goal of the Go Sun Smart at Work (GSSW) program is to fully virtualize an evidence-based sun safety program for employers and their employees who work outdoors. Go Sun Smart at Work is supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (R44CA257778). The program addresses comprehensive sun safety in a time of escalating heat and UV exposure. Its mission is to help prevent overexposure to, and the harmful effects of, ultraviolet and infrared radiation in order to reduce skin cancer and heat illness. Program benefits include reducing injury and illness, keeping employees on the job, and containing health care costs and productivity losses. Program elements include implementing workplace policies and procedures through carefully tailored online tools, and training employees about sun safety practices and prevention with racially and culturally relevant videos and materials. Workplace procedures and training can help reduce every employee’s chance of suffering from heat illness or skin cancer. For any questions or concerns, you can email admin@gosunsmart.com 

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Sun Safety Manual Definitions

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“Acclimatization” means temporary adaptation of the body to work in the heat that occurs gradually when a person is exposed to it. Acclimatization peaks in most people within four to fourteen days of regular work for at least two hours per day in the heat.

“Heat Illness” means a serious medical condition resulting from the body’s inability to cope with a particular heat load and includes heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat syncope and heat stroke.

“Environmental risk factors for heat illness” means working conditions that create the possibility that heat illness could occur, including air temperature, relative humidity, radiant heat from the sun and other sources, conductive heat sources such as the ground, air movement, workload severity and duration, protective clothing and personal protective equipment worn by employees.

“Personal risk factors for heat illness” means factors such as an individual’s age, degree of acclimatization, health, water consumption, alcohol consumption, caffeine consumption, and use of prescription medications that affect the body’s water retention or other physiological responses to heat.

“Shade” means blockage of direct sunlight. One indicator that blockage is sufficient is when objects do not cast a shadow in the area of blocked sunlight. Shade is not adequate when heat in the area of shade defeats the purpose of shade, which is to allow the body to cool. For example, a car sitting in the sun does not provide acceptable shade to a person inside it, unless the car is running with air conditioning. Shade may be provided by any natural or artificial means that does not expose employees to unsafe or unhealthy conditions and that does not deter or discourage access or use.

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