Heat Stress in Food Processing and Handling Environments

MARCOM's Heat Stress in Food Processing and Handling Environments DVD Program discusses how the body’s cooling system operates and responds to heat, types of heat-related illnesses and how to treat them, and how to prepare to work in hot food processing and handling environments safely. It also provides guidance on how to engineer controls for hot environments. Our bodies are strong, flexible and capable of performing a variety of demanding tasks... but heat stress can interfere with its natural processes. When this happens, the results can be serious, even fatal. But they don’t have to be. The DVD program includes information on how heat affects the body’s “cooling system”, types of heat-related illnesses and their symptoms, treating heat-related illnesses, how to prepare for working in hot environments, how to engineer controls for hot environments and more. The DVD program comes with a comprehensive leader's guide, reproducible scheduling & attendance form, employee quiz, traini