Are they serious? Sadly, yes they are. Workers can down tools in heatwaves under health and safety plan
In that place where Great Britain used to be...
Unions are pressing for the plans to include a maximum working temperature of 27C for manual jobs and have discussed their demands with ministers.
That is 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit, for those of you who are metrically challenged.
Now, I have no idea how humid it gets in most of Britain, and the United Kingdom, but 80 degrees is not a lot.
Drink some water now and then, and you will be fine.
Labour has already pledged to “modernise” health and safety rules around extreme temperatures.
Extremely stupid.
To be fair, air conditioning is very rare in the UK (only 4% of homes, more in businesses). On the other hand, average high temperatures in the summer are 75F, so 80 isn't that much hotter.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in middle school (though we called it junior high back in the dark ages) one of my teachers had standing homework. Read a certain amount to the text, and so on. If the the official temperature out of Chicago was in 100 degrees or more, we didn't have to do the homework. And there were a few days where homework was forgiven.
DeleteWe were dismayed because he used the temperature reported at Midway airport, which being closer to the lake, was usually 5 or 10 degrees cooler than where we were in the burbs.
Now that was homework, not construction, but I would love to talk to roofers from that era, or carpenters, because I really doubt that work stopped during that period in time. The suburbs of Chicago were growing like mad during my youth.