Current Events > Abbott gets rid of city-ordained water breaks.

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10-minute breaks every four hours

He trying to kill the construction industry?

At least 279 people died due to heat in Texas in 2022. Of those, 142, or 51%, were residents of another state or country

that is pretty surprising. More than half werent residents of Texas

The hardass ultra old conservatives that think water breaks are for sissies because back in their day people just sweated out the heat and only losers died from heat exhaustion?

He trying to kill the construction industry?

That's it?
10 minutes every four hours?
And that's somehow an issue and needed to be abolished?

Water breaks are better solved by OSHA controls, argued Geoffrey Tahuahua, president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas. Tahuahua believes local rules impose a rigid scheme that, unlike OSHA guidelines, does not allow the flexibility needed to tailor breaks to individual job site conditions.
They try to make one size fits all, and that is not how it should work, he said. These ordinances just add confusion and encourage people to do the minimum instead of doing the right thing.

Someone needs to look out for those poor construction companies and their profit margins

Seems logical to me.

The people most likely to be in danger of hear exhaustion are those unfamiliar with Texas in the summertime.

Doubtful, most are probably from Mexico and know exactly how hot it is. They are probably just being worked to death (literally).

I literally have to ensure 162 people [in Texas] dont get heat exhaustion every day.

I have way more anecdotal evidence to base my conclusions on than you do.

Like, I don't think having their workers die and the delays that cause with these kinds of industries even benefit their profit margins though. There is a point where people become so greedy that it actually harms their ability to even make profits.

I literally have to ensure 162 people [in Texas] dont get heat exhaustion every day.

I have way more anecdotal evidence to base my conclusions on than you do.

We're dealing with soulless entities...

Looks like you and your colleagues are doing a bang up job, based on real evidence.

Doubtful, most are probably from Mexico and know exactly how hot it is. They are probably just being worked to death (literally).

"data" is not the plural of "anecdote"

lol wut

WHY the fuck would you greenlight this?

Conservative transplants from California ruining the great state of Texas again with their librul idears.

You can hope the supervisors still have a heart and let their crew drink water as needed.

They really should, cause if people just up and stopped working so they could have water breaks there's nothing those supervisors could do about it.

That's gotta be some kind of OSHA violation.

Fixed.

Dont get how that is legal.