Nevada Adds Heat Illness Prevention Requirements

The Nevada Division of Industrial Relations has recently approved a heat illness prevention regulation that adds worker protections from indoor and outdoor heat hazards.  Enforcement of the regulation began on April 29, 2025.

The Details

The regulation requires Nevada employers with more than 10 employees to perform a one-time job hazard analysis and based on its results:

• Adopt a written safety plan;
• Implement emergency response procedures; and
• Train their employees on certain topics related to heat illness.

Job Hazard Analysis

The purpose of the one-time job hazard analysis is to assess working conditions that could cause occupational exposure to heat illness. The analysis must include:

• Job classifications where a majority of employees have exposure to heat illness for more than 30 minutes in any 60-minute period (not including breaks).
• All tasks and procedures (or groups of closely related tasks and procedures) where exposure to heat illness may occur.

Written Safety Program

If a job hazard analysis identifies conditions that may expose an employee to heat illness, an employer must include the following in the written safety program:

• Provisions on potable water, a rest break for an employee exhibiting signs or symptoms of heat illness, and means of cooling employees.
  
  
• Monitoring of working conditions that could create occupational exposure to heat illness (unless an employee loads or unloads a motor vehicle that operates on public highways).
  
  
• Identification and mitigation of processes that may generate more heat or humidity.
  
  

• Emergency response procedures: An employer must designate an employee who is authorized to carry out certain emergency response functions if the employer determines (based on the job hazard analysis) that an employee may be exposed to heat illness. The designated employee must monitor working conditions that could create exposure to heat illness and perform the below functions when an employee is experiencing signs or symptoms of heat illness:

• Employee training: Employers must provide training to employees identified in the job hazard analysis on how to recognize the hazards of heat illness and the procedures to be followed to minimize the hazards of heat illness.

Next steps

• Review the regulation and recent guidance for complete details and update written safety programs to include these new heat-related provisions.
• Train employees and supervisors on the requirements.

·       ADP Risk and Safety resources can support you in creating injury prevention plans and may be able to assist in meeting other requirements. Please contact your Risk and Safety Consultant for further assistance.