**5. Prevention**

Heat-related illnesses are preventable (**Figure 1**). Hence all the efforts should be taken for identifying patients at risk, educating not only patients but their relatives, care givers, social workers about awareness, preventive measures and seeking early health care. Not only athletes, but spectators, administrators, event organizers, coaches, staff should be educated about heat exposure and heat-related illnesses, and athletes should be acclimatized in advance for shorter training sessions for extreme heat exposure [7]. About 75% of fatalities at work in the extreme of temperature occur during the first week. Outdoor workers and their supervisors should also be educated and made aware about day to day extreme temperatures and risk of heatrelated illnesses and encourage them to drink water frequently, remove extra clothes and equipment. We recommend in extreme summer days, outdoor construction and other work should be in the early hours of day and in the evening and to rest in the afternoon when the temperature is maximum. Few countries follow the rule of 20%, in the first week of work in extreme summer, worker should work only 20% of the shift and in further weeks also do 20% work of the day till acclimatize to the extremely warm weather (**Figure 1**) [5].
