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Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Section 1: Program Overview This Kennedy/Jenks (K/J) policy is intended to comply with the requirements set forth in the California Code of Regulations (CCR) Title 8, Subchapter 7, Sections 3395 and 1524. This Heat Illness Prevention Program applies to all work operations at K/J offices and to all K/J field operations when Heat Illness is recognized as a potential hazard. This written program is available to all employees and managers during regular business hours and is located on the KJ Intranet. Hard copies are available upon request during normal business hours from the Director of Health, Safety, & Environment (HSE) or Business Unit Health & Safety Manager. This written program has been developed for the purpose of providing information and training on the procedures to prevent heat illness to all supervisory and non-supervisory employees. All K/J staff will participate in Heat Illness Prevention training and will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding preventing heat illness. Effective training in the following topics shall be provided to each supervisory and non- supervisory employee before the employee begins work that should reasonably be anticipated to result in exposure to the risk of heat illness: Included in this program is detailed information regarding: • The environmental and personal risk factors for heat illness; • The employer's procedures for complying with the requirements of this standard including, but not limited to, the employer's responsibility to provide water, shade, cool-down rests, and access to first aid as well as the employees' right to exercise their rights under this standard without retaliation; • The importance of frequent consumption of small quantities of water, up to 4 cups per hour, when the work environment is hot and employees are likely to be sweating more than usual in the performance of their duties; • The concept, importance, and methods of acclimatization pursuant to the employer's procedures; • The different types of heat illness, the common signs and symptoms of heat illness and appropriate first aid and/or emergency responses to the different types of heat illness, and that heat illness may progress quickly from mild symptoms and signs to serious and life threatening illness; • The importance to employees of immediately reporting to the employer, directly or through the employee's supervisor, symptoms or signs of heat illness in themselves, or in co-workers; Heat Illness Prevention Program Kennedy/Jenks Consultants©, March 2015 Page 1 UACOR-UserUmMocument originals\Formatted Final Versions