Too Hot to Ignore: Heat-Related Injuries and Workers' Compensation

ArticleSeptember 1, 2026

Learn how rising workplace heat risks affect Workers’ Compensation claims, underwriting, prevention, employee safety and return-to-work planning.

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.

Watch the full webinar here, featuring a discussion with four knowledgeable panelists on how heat risk is changing across industries and how to best protect your employees.

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.