This updated Heat Stress Awareness Guide was developed by the occupational health section of The Ministry Of Public Health under the supervision of the manager of Health Promotion and Non-Communicable diseases to provide information and advice on preventing managing and controlling heat stress in the workplace.

This guideline may be cited as the Guidelines on Heat Stress Management at Workplace.

It is targeting employers, managers, supervisors, workers, joint health and safety committee members, health and safety representatives, employer associations, and health and safety Professionals.

To address the occupational health challenges, we work in partnership with other governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, private sector and international organizations such as WHO and ILO.

This guideline provides guidance on how to recognize, estimate, prevent and treat heat stress at work. It also serves as a guide to employers in avoiding discomfort from hot environment at work. Risk assessment and risk control has been elaborated in this guideline based on heat stress estimation using wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT). Heat stress can increase stress and fatigue which can lead to serious health conditions for workers working in hot environments and may increase workplace accidents.