Course Info
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.
What You Will Learn
- 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.