{"id":7798,"date":"2023-07-21T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T02:47:59","slug":"miami-dade-moves-to-protect-workers-from-heat-as-another-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2023\/07\/21\/miami-dade-moves-to-protect-workers-from-heat-as-another-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Moves to Protect Workers from Heat as Another Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2023\/07\/19\/homestead-farm-worker-dies-due-to-historic-heat-wave\/\">continue to die<\/a> from high heat and employer neglect, while an OSHA standard may be years off and Texas Governor Greg Abbott rolls back worker protections:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HOMESTEAD, Fla. \u2013 A South Florida farm worker has died after working during the historic heat wave and, on Wednesday, the Farmworker Association of Florida Homestead Office held a vigil and press conference in Efrain Lopez Garcia\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Friends and loved ones say Lopez Garcia complained about feeling sick during a recent shift out in the heat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The 30-year-old was found unresponsive and was later pronounced dead. His official cause of death has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Heat doesn&#8217;t kill workers. The employer&#8217;s failure to protect workers from the heat kills workers.\u00a0 And some localities have decided to do something about it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But make no mistake: Heat doesn&#8217;t kill workers. The employer&#8217;s failure to protect workers from the heat kills workers.\u00a0 And some localities have decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida&#8217;s Miami-Dade County,<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">County commissioners unanimously passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2023\/07\/19\/miami-dade-commissioners-pass-measure-to-adopt-heat-standard-for-outdoor-workers\/\">preliminary measure<\/a>\u00a0to adopt a heat standard for workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It would require a safety program educating workers and their supervisors about heat exposure risk, the right to a 10-minute paid rest and shaded water breaks every two hours. A new county office will also be opened to enforce these protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIt will be the first such law in Florida, and it will be the strongest such law if it passes as is in the entire nation,\u201d Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just the goodness of their hearts &#8212; nor even the death of Efrain Lopez Garcia &#8212; that pushed the commissioners to action. It was good, old-fashioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2023\/07\/18\/watch-miami-dade-county-leaders-hold-press-conference-for-new-laws-aiming-to-protect-outside-workers-from-heat\/\">organizing<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridafarmworkers.org\/\">Farm Worker Association of Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe want employers to know to educate their employees about how to take care of themselves \u2013 basic needs: water, shade, breaks \u2013 to work with someone, not to be left alone. You never know what\u2019s going to happen, so unfortunately, this death occurred and we tried preventing it,\u201d said Yvette Cruz, of the Farm Workers Association of Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Luis Campos told Local 10 News in Spanish that most bosses aren\u2019t considerate of what workers are going through in this heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s the same sentiment we heard from many outdoor workers off camera in Homestead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe county and the state should make strict laws to protect workers,\u201d Campos said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Lopez Garcia is one of at least two farmworkers suspected to have died from being exposed to extreme heat in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bczRLJ dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hxNyjp itaLjB\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The tragedies fueled protests outside the Miami-Dade County Government building Tuesday, calling for action to protect outdoors workers exposed to dangerous heat.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2023\/06\/20\/greg-abbott-texas-where-workers-go-to-die\/\">as we&#8217;ve written before<\/a>, if this were Texas, the Miami-Dade ordinance would be illegal. Texas Governor Gregg Abbott has signed a law forbidding localities from passing any ordinances more strict than state rules. And Texas has no state rules to protect workers from heat. Existing heat protections for workers in Dallas and Austin will die on September 1.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis doesn&#8217;t follow Abbott&#8217;s lead and make Florida into the state where workers go to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers continue to die from high heat and employer neglect, while an OSHA standard may be years off and Texas Governor Greg Abbott rolls back worker protections: HOMESTEAD, Fla. \u2013 A South Florida farm worker has died after working during the historic heat wave and, on Wednesday, the Farmworker Association of Florida Homestead Office held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heat","tag-florida"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Miami-Dade Moves to Protect Workers from Heat as Another Dies - Confined Space<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Heat doesn&#039;t kill workers. 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