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col Environmental Science&Engineering <br /> Construction•Development•Industrial•Municipal <br /> ENGINEERING 45 Polk Street,3rd Floor•San Francisco,California 94102•415.498.0535•cdimengineering.com <br /> HSP-10 <br /> HEAT AND COLD STRESS MANAGEMENT <br /> HEALTH AND SAFETY PROCEDURE <br /> 1 .0 PURPOSE <br /> This health and safety procedure (HSP) establishes the methods and responsibilities associated with <br /> managing heat and cold stress. This procedure is applicable to employees and subcontractors. <br /> 2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES <br /> Role Responsibility <br /> Project Manager The PM is responsible for the implementation of this procedure. <br /> (PM) The PM, in consultation with the Health and Safety Program Manager (HSPM), is <br /> responsible for identifying all training requirements pertinent to project activities. The <br /> PM is responsible for ensuring all personnel working on a project have received the <br /> required training. The PM shall ensure that provisions of applicable documents and <br /> regulations are followed. <br /> Health and Safety The HSPM is responsible for the issuance, revision, maintenance, and compliance <br /> Program of this procedure. <br /> Manager(HSPM) <br /> Site Health and The SHSO is responsible for ensuring and verifying that this procedure is <br /> Safety Officer implemented in the field. <br /> (SHSO) <br /> Employees All employees are responsible for following this procedure as it applies to their work. <br /> 3.0 DEFINITIONS <br /> Employee Any person employed by CDIM. <br /> Acclimatization The temporary adaptation of the body to work in the heat that occurs gradually when a <br /> person is exposed to it. Acclimatization peaks in most people within four to fourteen <br /> days of regular work for at least two hours per day in the heat. <br /> Heat Illness A serious medical condition resulting from the body's inability to cope with a particular <br /> heat load, and includes heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat syncope and heat stroke. <br /> Environmental Working conditions that create the possibility that heat illness could occur, including <br /> Risk Factors air temperature, relative humidity, radiant heat from the sun and other sources, <br /> for Heat Illness conductive heat sources such as the ground, air movement, workload severity and <br />