More frequent and extreme weather events pose increasing risks to employee health and business performance

Risk analysis conducted by the newly formed National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health highlights need to bolster people, business, and economic resilience CEOs acknowledge extreme weather will be one of the most critical threats to their businesses in the next year. Yet only 17% of CEOs have invested in strategies to better protect employees from climate health risks. Exposure to more frequent extreme heat, poor air quality and unprecedented weather events directly impacts physical and mental heal ...