The Obama administration’s Office of Personnel Management is encouraging federal workers to work from home if they simply can’t bear the excessive heat this summer. Beth Cobert, Acting Director of the OPM, warned federal employees in a recent blog post, as well as in a memo distributed to all federal HR Directors, of the excessive risks associated with “dangerous heat waves” and the precautions that should be taken to “protect ourselves and our family’s health and well-being.”
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have teamed up to remind all of us, including agencies and employees across government about what they can do to protect all Federal workers during potentially dangerous heat waves.
…severe heat and humidity – like we’ve seen during this summer season – make it necessary for us all to take precautions to protect ourselves and our family’s health and well-being.
It’s also important to remember that for Federal employees, OPM’s workplace flexibility that may be used to reduce health risks during such extreme heat periods. If your supervisor approves, telework-ready employees may telework from home on a day when air quality conditions are poor.
The detailed memo points to roughly 20 online resources that federal employees may reference that provide “advice on the best ways to cope with severe heat.”
All of this inter-agency collaboration and highlighting of available resources makes us feel a bit negligent in our internal communications to employees regarding the heat wave which was simply to use some common sense.
The Washington Examiner also provided this helpful video:
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