OAKLAND - The notion that California needs a workplace standard to protect workers from heat illness is not new. Cal/OSHA has had draft language for a regulation since the early part of this decade, and it first became an issue in the mid-1980s with a petition by a group of librarians. But it has been seen as a hard-to-regulate issue and until earlier this year was pretty much off the agency's radar screen. But there
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