Increasingly powerful hurricanes fueled by climate change aren’t going away anytime soon. We’ve seen that already this year with Milton and Helene, the latter of which was considered one of the deadliest hurricanes to make landfall in the mainland U.S. since Katrina. And many places that are vulnerable to natural disasters are not only filled with people, but are growing in population.
Regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) require that employers protect workers from known hazards, including natural disasters. That said, companies are mostly left to their own devices when it comes to figuring out how to do that.
