Hydration

state fund ins is doing a seminar with cal osha on heat injuries, the employer is now responsible for providing laborers with 1 quqart of potable water per hour and must allow loborers to take a cool off break in the shade, natural or improvised... also we are supposed to warn our workers on the effects of uv radiation from the sun

un believable..now the workers who were once just accepting the environment that their job was in, are being babied...have a lil skin cancer when your 50...its a comp case....ohh we need a portable canopy for some shade on the job...how many more 10 min breaks a day are we gonna have to give out?
if in cali look into the new rules that are coming up
 
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have a lil skin cancer when your 50...its a comp case....

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Don't trifle with skin cancer. It will kick your [what???] [what???].
 
The question of how hot is too hot doesn't come up for me much. In Texas, if we stopped working when it got hot we'd be as poor as a Seattle climber who called it a day when it rained. In 2000, I worked Labor Day--forecast called for typical 100 degrees or so. Couldn't figure out why I was having so much trouble getting those logs loaded. Turned out we had a record of 112 degress for the day. I lived. Not to minimize--more than once I've felt the early effects of heat stress, and a couple I pushed it beyond a little. Not something to mess around with.

I start drinking water before I leave the house and keep going through the day. Like Tom, I use a camelback on the hottest days. I find I drink more water that way. Any free moment catching my breath or enjoying the view becomes a chance for a few sips. Also, for awhile at least, the water is cool enough to take some of my body heat away.

I did read an article recently about the dangers of too much water. It was in relation to marathon runners. When you drink so much that you dilute the salts in your system, sickness or even death can result. I like Emergen-C better than the common sports drinks--less sugar, and my chiro says a better ratio of salts (more K to Na) than gator and others. Honestly, though, I mostly just drink straight water, any temp I can get it, though cold goes down nicer on a 110-degree day.

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Man, room temp water when I thirsty just bloats me and makes me feel ill. It's gotta be ice cold!
 
I've been gulping and pouring it on my head for three decades, now. That's just how I roll. ;^)
 
Yesterday I figured out, by accident, how to pressurize the water in the Camelback. One drawback is that the tube is a small diameter and the bite valve doesn't allow much water to get down my gullet. Until I figured out how to suck and swallow I was swallowing air along with the water. That lead to bad tummy and nasty burps.

In the afternoon I was on the ground, leaning against a wall. When I took a suck through the bit valve the water kept flowing. It took me a second to realize that I was pressurizing the delivery. From now on that's how I'm going to get hydrated.
 
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