As the summer continues to heat up, legislators in Sacramento are finally moving forward with protections for workers who work in overheated indoor conditions across the state. The rules have been caught up in limbo following the state prison system’s concern that it would simply be too expensive to renovate their facilities to make it cool enough for safe working conditions. The rules have now moved forward through the State’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for all hot indoor workplaces in the state except for in California prisons. 

Joining us to discuss are Rachel van Geenhoven and Brian Kaneda. Rachel is communications director with WorkSafe, a California organization that uses policy advocacy, legal services, and movement building, to promote and protect the basic right of all people to a safe and healthy workplace. Brian is deputy director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget, or CURB, which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of us, to reduce prisons.

Check out WorkSafe’s website: https://worksafe.org/

Check out CURB’s website: https://www.curbprisonspending.org/

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