Enforcement Guidance for Heat-Related Illness Inspections and Citations

This Operational Procedure Notice (OPN) provides NCDOL OSH Division guidance for conducting inspections and issuing citations associated with heat-related illness and potential heat-related illness in the workplace.

Changes from OPN 141A include:

  • Addition of a paragraph in the Citation Guidance section directing CSHOs to document employee signs/symptoms of a heat-related illness;
  • OSHA's 2019 heat memo was added as a resource; and
  • Statistics were updated

Also reference OSHA Technical Manual, Section III, Chapter 4 - Heat Stress.

Document Information

Document Number: OPN 141B
Effective Date:

Archived Versions

Title File Name Archived Date
141A(archived) opn141a.pdf
141(archived) opn141.pdf