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3 Ways to Beat the Summer Heat

July 14, 2016

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Do your employees work indoors? Perhaps they work outside or in a high-temperature warehouse. Regardless, certain types of businesses have to strategically plan for the hot summer months and supervisors have to pay even close attention to ensure adequate breaks and hydration for each employee. Regardless of your staff’s work conditions, it is always wise to be prepared for the summer heat and how it could affect your team.

Here are a few ways to prepare your team for the hot summer months:

  • Provide plenty of water and adequate breaks. “Water. Rest. Shade.” is OSHA’s annual campaign to drive awareness to working in the summer heat. As an employer or supervisor, it is your responsibility to provide your employees with plenty of water, shaded areas and light-colored clothing. Heat-related illness can lead to sever exhaustion or even a heatstroke.
  • Allow time to become acclimated. It is essential to slowly build your team’s workload while working in the heat. It can take the body two weeks to fully acclimatize to a hot working environment. Requiring your employees to take frequent breaks in the shade or in an air-conditioned space (if available) and gradually assigning tasks will ease the transition.
  • Maintain and service your A/C unit(s). The best way to guarantee comfort and health in your employees is to make sure your facility’s A/C equipment is functioning in top shape. For commercial equipment, it is wise to call an experienced mechanical service company to check your coils, change your air filters and run diagnostic testing. Scheduling seasonal preventive maintenance can exponentially lengthen the life of your equipment.

By contacting us at Interstate Mechanical Service, we can help you get your facility summer ready. In the midst of these hot and humid summer months, don’t wait until your cooling system breaks down. Be prepared by calling us at 865-602-1428.

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I have had the pleasure to work with Interstate Mechanical Contractors for close to 30 years and can assure you they are the Best of the Best. I believe there are 3 priorities for a successful contractor: Safety, Quality of work and Production. Their commitment to safety and their employees is unquestioned. They do great quality of work and stand behind their work and finally they get the job done. It is an extreme pleasure to work with a company as Professional as IMC.

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Interstate Mechanical Contractors consistently performs their work to meet our expectations in an efficient and professional manner. I have no hesitation recommending IMC as a mechanical contractor that can deliver high quality work and add value to any project.

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We have had the pleasure and privilege of handling the performance bonding requirements of Interstate for over 25 years and through two generations of ownership. During that time Interstate has performed admirably and completed work treating all parties with fairness and respect and rendering the owner a quality product. As a grantor of credit in the form of bonding we can ask for no more.

- Tom McCarley | Senior Vice President, J. Smith Lanier & Co.

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We have worked with Interstate Mechanical on many projects over the years. The Interstate staff is experienced and professional from start to finish. We look forward to having Interstate as part of our project team.

- Gary Bennett | President, Blaine Construction

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