NYC Executive Order No. 17 (signed June 22, 2026), the city's first worker heat-protection order. A binding executive order — no WBGT or heat-index threshold of its own and no work/rest table. Regulation (mandatory) for City agencies and contractors (heat illness prevention plans on Heat Emergency activation), for food delivery workers (strictly enforced Administrative Code §20-563 restaurant bathroom access during high heat), and for construction site operators (DOB heat-reporting notice). Guidance (advisory) for the broader outdoor workforce named: water, shade, rest, acclimatization, training, symptom reporting.
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No standalone formula is published for this standard; see programmable logic and parameters below.
Governing metric: City Heat Emergency Plan activation (heat-index trigger)
Programmable logic: Emits mandatory measures (agency/contractor prevention plans on Heat Emergency activation; strict enforcement of §20-563 food-delivery-worker bathroom access; DOB construction heat-reporting notice) plus advisory best-practice controls. When the Heat Emergency Plan is active — asserted via heatEmergencyActive, or derived when heatIndexF is at or above 100°F — raises an alert. The two-consecutive-day 95°F activation condition must be asserted via heatEmergencyActive. Setting foodDeliveryWorker (or industry 'delivery') surfaces the §20-563 enforceable bathroom right. No fixed work/rest ratio.
This standard does not take WBGT as a required input, and publishes no standalone numeric parameter table here; see the governing metric and programmable logic above, and the primary source below.
Required inputs: none
Optional inputs: usStateCode, heatEmergencyActive, heatIndexF, foodDeliveryWorker, airTempC, outdoor, industry
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