Companies in Japan are now required to take steps to protect their employees against heatstroke, with the government imposing new rules in response to the steadily increasing number of deaths in recent years attributed to the worsening summer heat.Under a revised ordinance that took effect on June 1, businesses will be penalized if they fail to act after investigations found many deaths resulted from delayed detection of symptoms and inadequate responses.Companies are required to take measures for staff working for 60 consecutive minutes or for four hours per day in temperatures exceeding 3…READ FULL ARTICLE
