I lavoratori possono abbassare gli strumenti nelle onde di calore nell’ambito del piano di salute e sicurezza
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/workers-down-tools-heatwaves-under-050000373.html
di Wagamaga
I lavoratori possono abbassare gli strumenti nelle onde di calore nell’ambito del piano di salute e sicurezza
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/workers-down-tools-heatwaves-under-050000373.html
di Wagamaga
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Workers would be allowed to down tools during heatwaves under health and safety plans drawn up by regulators.
Binmen, builders and others doing manual labour would be able to demand extra protection during hot weather under proposals being developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the industry regulator.
Unions are pressing for the plans to include a maximum working temperature of 27C for manual jobs and have discussed their demands with ministers
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, a Labour under-secretary of business, said in the House of Lords last month that the HSE would bring forward detailed proposals in the coming months. She said: “We recognise that workplace temperatures are changing, especially as the climate changes.”
27 degrees maximum to work in?
This country is a joke.
What do they think people in hot countries do, just take half the year off work?
The only thing I’ve refused to do during the heatwaves in any loft related work, anything else isn’t that bad.
The van gets absolutely roasting but windows down and you’re fine. Or work for somewhere that provides aircon in vans
As someone who used to work the bins and who’s done other grafty jobs it’s one of the worst jobs in the world in a heatwave in full ppe. Would happily spend a day in constant rain in January over that.
The answer is let them start much earlier not many of us would have minded but of course everybody would moan about the bin men being noisy at 5 am or whatever.
It’s a bit hard to air-condition an outdoor building site, but employers could put in much more effort than they do. For interior spaces, there’s usually no excuse.
For example, outdoor employers could put sun-shades over fixed outdoor work sites (and move them as necessary). They could arrange strenuous work to happen mornings and afternoon. An obligation to take reasonable measures, and for those to include things like this, is not overly onerous.
Indoor employers can install cooling. For example my first job was in an office which was over a production bakery site (baking cakes for supermarkets) and it was about 35˚C in there in summer (measured with a thermometer). I swear it was hotter than the actual bakery (didn’t measure the bakery, I admit, just went in there sometimes). There’s no reason the owners could not have installed air conditioning for the offices to protect some of the workers from extreme heat, but they were far too tight for that.
Remember that employees are already able to stop work for unsafe conditions: lack of safety barriers and harnesses, dangerous gases and fumes without protection, lack of PPE, and so on. Stopping work because you’re going to be dangerously overheated is not different. See [https://prospect.org.uk/article/i-do-not-think-my-workplace-is-safe-what-rights-do-i-have-if-i-refuse-to-work-on-health-safety-grounds/](https://prospect.org.uk/article/i-do-not-think-my-workplace-is-safe-what-rights-do-i-have-if-i-refuse-to-work-on-health-safety-grounds/)
Lovely idea, but will completely cripple the construction industry in summer months.
If houses and property wasn’t expensive enough
I dunno if anyone else has ever had to carry out a risk assessment but inclement weather is definitely something I was trained to take into account when carrying out the assessment.
I work in a factory and it always amuses me when you get the office staff complaining about the weather sat in their air conditioned rooms whilst us grunts working on the floor are literally sweating our knackers off 😂. Obviously it reverses in winter and we are stuck wearing coats 🙉
Nothing more british than a law to protect workers from heatstroke and the comment section full of people slagging workers off. We are a nation of submissive plebs.
About time, I can’t believe this hasn’t been a thing for ages.
Or, why not go mediterranean and have a siesta to avoid the hottest part of the day. Makes far more sense than downing tools for the rest of the day when a certain temperature is reached.
Wonder if it includes the military….joking. I don’t wonder, I know it won’t.
Criteria for UK heatwave is 25c for 3 days in a row….fkn laughable, prob gonna cancil flights abroad soon or have an age limit on to keep the public safe…
But schools will remain open as the children actively melt.
My brother used to work as a Tree Surgeon for a few years. 7am-7pm working days. PPE includes ultra thick layered trousers so you don’t cut your leg off with a chainsaw accidentally, big gloves, clunky helmet.. But you were allowed to wear a t-shirt. Even on a mild, or cold, weather day he would sweat gallons. He suffered from a few heat strokes come summer time and was just told to go home and come back tomorrow. Seeing the kind of toll it took on him in the really hot periods, I’d say this new legislation thing would be a very good idea for those in similar jobs.
My workplace has no air movement and south facing windows. It’s horrible during summer and they wont even let you wear shorts (apparently for health and safety reasons but knee length skirts are ok). We really need this law to cover indoor work as well, as its usually hotter inside than outside during the summer for me
This is bloody rediculous. I live in Australia and work outside all year round.
Stopping at 27 degrees is laughable.
You wear the right gear and learn ways of dealing with the heat.
What a pathetic joke.
What are they counting as manual labour? I’ve worked in kitchens that hit 40 C a couple summers ago, it was bloody miserable.
It would be interesting if there were any protections for WFH workers.
Personally, I wouldn’t mind if they would make employers provide WFH employees with portable AC units for their home office.
Try being a fridge engineer wearing full PPE in a heatwave. The only good part is going home.