{"id":28220,"date":"2023-06-18T02:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=28220"},"modified":"2023-06-18T02:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T06:24:25","slug":"as-texas-swelters-local-rules-requiring-water-breaks-for-constructio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=28220","title":{"rendered":"As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for constructio\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbnails.texastribune.org\/5TSllz7uyk7wYUW0XZW-SkpYe6E=\/1200x804\/smart\/filters:format(webp):quality(75)\/https:\/\/static.texastribune.org\/media\/files\/d7a1941a03a740fc772f4b13b81b08fc\/Workers%20File%20SP%20TT%2001.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"131\" \/>Gov. Greg Abbott approved this week a law that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin and Dallas\u2019 mandated water breaks. Texas is one of the states where most workers die from high tem\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/06\/16\/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers\/\">As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for constructio\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow.  that&#8217;s fricken&#8217; mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Texas is the state where the most workers die from high temperatures, government data shows.\u00a0<strong><em>The law will nullify ordinances<\/em><\/strong> enacted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/Contract_Management\/Rest_Break_Ordinance_posters.pdf\">Austin in 2010<\/a>\u00a0and Dallas in 2015 that <strong><em>established 10-minute breaks every four hours<\/em><\/strong> 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. <br>It will go into effect on Sept. 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Abbott approved this week a law that will eliminate city&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[48,788,945,513,205],"class_list":["post-28220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-health","tag-labour","tag-rwnj","tag-texas","tag-water","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28222,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220\/revisions\/28222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}