If adopted, H.B. 1071 would provide for protections for employees from occupational heat exposure through employer-implemented preventative measures, triggered by initial heat indices, that would include providing water, access to shade, as well as mandatory breaks, observation systems, and heat hazard alerts for dangerous conditions.
Savanha Renald
Savanha (they/m) is a Miami-born, Atlanta-based radical Black ecologist, organizer, and attorney whose work sits at the intersection of environmental justice and prison abolition. Savanha is dedicated to reconciling public imagination concerning the value of Black life and Mother Earth, deepening possibilities of collective struggle, and creating institutions rooted in notions of indispensability.