Pro-tip: Never sit on the asphalt.
Heat stroke guidelines
Pack items:
Fishing shirts, these types of long sleeve shirts offer UV protection, cool the wearer and wick sweat easily.
Goodwill pants, after a few good days of sweating and pulling cable it’s nice to just throw the pants away.
- Pro tip: Fill your pants pockets with ice from a cooler
Items you can soak in an iced cooler:
- A hat you can wet with ice water
- Shoes you can soak with ice water
- V8 Energy drink
Pedialyte powder packs: Water and Gatorade are not enough to replace your lost electrolytes on a hot build day.
Bug spray
Ice packs
Sunscreen
Laser temp gun: Temp that asphalt before you start building on it, you’ll save yourself a lot of stroked out technicians if you know exactly what you are getting into.