The Case for a Heat Rule
Heat standards are both a moral imperative and a commonsense win-win: they prevent injuries and deaths, reduce workers’ compensation claims, decrease employee turnover, and even increase productivity, boosting bottom lines.
Issue Briefs
The Federation of American Scientists has a series of issue briefs on the impacts of extreme heat.
Heat Rule Comparison Tool
BGA, NELP and NRDC have designed a Heat Rule Comparison Tool to equip heat rule drafters, worker heat protection advocates, and other stakeholders with practical language solutions to streamline the development of comprehensive heat regulations.
View PageProtection Checklists
The BlueGreen Alliance—along with the United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers (USW), the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Ceres, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), and Federation of American Scientists (FAS)—have developed a checklist that companies, universities, cities, counties, and states can use to protect workers from heat. (Updated July 2026)
NRDC and BGA jointly published the
Economic Benefits of Workplace Heat Safeguards