As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for constructio…

Gov. Greg Abbott approved this week a law that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin and Dallas’ mandated water breaks. Texas is one of the states where most workers die from high tem…

Source: As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for constructio…

Wow. that’s fricken’ mean.

Texas is the state where the most workers die from high temperatures, government data shows. The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It also prevents other cities from passing such rules in the future.
It will go into effect on Sept. 1.

Texas is the state where the most workers die from high temperatures, government data shows. At least 42 workers died in Texas between 2011 and 2021 from environmental heat exposure,