Too Hot to Ignore:
Heat-Related Injuries and Workers' Compensation
Thursday, July 16, 2026
1:00 pm–2:00 pm ET
RIMS Member FREE | Nonmember $50 USD
As heat-related workplace exposures continue to evolve, workers’ compensation carriers, employers, risk engineers, claims teams, and medical professionals are facing new questions around prevention, compensability, severity, underwriting, and claim outcomes.
Please join us for an upcoming webinar on Workers’ Compensation and heat related Injuries, featuring a discussion with four knowledgeable panelists who will focus on how heat risk is changing across industries and how to best protect your employees.
Note: All downloads and related contact information will be accessible to the webinar sponsor.
Objectives
- Recognize why heat-related injuries are an emerging workers’ compensation concern and how exposure trends may affect loss costs, severity, and litigation.
- Identify high-risk industries, job tasks, geographies, and workforce factors that increase heat-related injury exposure.
- Understand key heat-related medical conditions, including heat exhaustion, heat stroke, dehydration, and aggravation of underlying conditions.
- Evaluate underwriting, risk engineering, claims, and medical considerations for managing heat-related injury risk.
- Apply practical prevention and response strategies, including heat illness prevention programs, monitoring tools, early claim triage, documentation, and return-to-work planning.
Speakers
Zak Waldstein
VP, Workers Compensation Technical Director
Zurich U.S.
Neil DeBlock
Vice President – Head of Workers Compensation Claims
Zurich U.S.
Dan Hornback, CSHM, CRIS, CDS
AVP, Technical Director, Worker Compensation & Motor Fleet
Zurich U.S.
Dr. Michael Choo
Chief Medical Officer, Workers Compensation
Paradigm Corporation
All RIMS webinars are available on-demand for one year for registered participants. Each hour of a RIMS webinar is eligible for one RIMS-CRMP recertification point.
If you have any questions, please contact RIMS Professional Development Team at PD@RIMS.org or +1 212-286-9292.
