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In Canada, Big Ass Fans is focusing not just on moving air, but on addressing the growing challenge of workplace heat stress. This year, Georgescu and his team attended the Canadian Safety Summit to connect with health and safety professionals. “For us, it was an awareness play about, hey, Big Ass Fans are in Canada,” he says. The timing is critical: Ontario’s proposed Bill 36 would introduce new regulations around workplace thermal comfort, like standards already enforced in some U.S. states.
Georgescu points out that fans are not only about cooling in the summer, but also about circulating heat in winter, creating a year-round solution for large, hard-to-regulate spaces. “We’re basically…