to think he need "maximum temp" working conditions?

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Just that really.

Was thinking about this today (in the face of tomorrow's weather forecast) and have also just read a thread about a pg mnetter suffering in the heat as her office doesn't have AC.

I have tried to work in some unbearably hot offices over the years and cannot understand why we have a "minimum temp" working conditions law but not a max one. Its getting hotter, lots more glass offices & shops etc. And don't even get me started on hospitals...

Enough! (fans self)

There was a petition about this about a month ago and it got enough signitures to be debated.

Put a bowl of cold water in front of a fan and let the air blow across the top of the water. Instant airconditioning. It really does work. It's how we got through the hot days when I was at school before they started airconditioning all the Australian schools. ::mutters about kids these days being soft::

Even better than a bowl of cold water is a frozen 2L bottle of water in front of the fan!

I fainted in the chip shop recently I seriously dont get how the staff can stand it in there.

I'm another person working in a kitchen, no air con.

It's not pleasant having to feel your entire body sweat. Can't be very hygienic for people's food either. I've had heat stroke quite a few times now too.

Apparently it would cost too much to have air con installed.

I need a new job!

"At least when it's really cold you can wrap up etc and you want to keep moving."

To people who, like me, really feel the cold, being told to put more clothes on isn't that helpful. And it doesn't make a significant amount of difference.

When I am very cold I can't function. All I can think about is how cold I am. When I am chilled to the bone the only thing that is an instant warm up is a hot bath.

Not dismissing being cold Nickname but its acknowledged that being too cold makes it impossible to work - hence laws on min temp. But being too hot is just as difficult and yet there are no limits to how hot the workplace can be.

Pregnant colleague burst into tears because she felt so poorly with the heat at work. She went home but it was horrible to see. Poor woman.

For safety reasons MOD/FCO buildings have no air con, windows don't open. Can be vile to work for government

There IS a max temp, think its 28-30c, not sure if utsnkaw of best practice though.....

The shop I used to work in had no air con for many years. It was basically a big tin box with a mezzanine floor and it got stupidly hot. After one weekend where three members of staff passed out and had to be sent home, somebody contacted Environmental Health who told them they couldn't help.
Thermometers were fitted in certain places and temperatures reached 40 degrees on the mezz regularly through summer. Head Office responded by fitting two industrial fans to the ceiling at the front which made a lot of noise, but didn't cool anything. The only result was that a member of staff who used hearing aids could no longer work on the till as the fans made it impossible for her to hear anyone speak.
Customers would walk in, then turn round and walk right out again as the heat and humidity were awful. Of course, in the winter it would get very cold as there were only a few heaters - stuck to the ceiling! Clearly someone at Head Office had fallen asleep during physics.
Yanbu op, but I think it would have to be variable depending on the working environment!

No fan or aircon in my surgery (hot face)

34 degrees in our office last week! I'm pregnant and have HG- I had to come early today due to the heat-induced puking 😱

Gawd, i remember being 8 months pregnant with DS1, and working all day in New Look in a shopping precinct.
No windows, no air con and no fans.. I walked out when it got to 38 degrees, unbearable!

There really should be a set max temperature without air con, it's dangerous!

I own a bakery. 25 deck ovens on at 250 degrees for 12 hours.

Today was wonderful.

When I worked a summer in a vineyard in Victoria, Australia we were sent home if it got over 36C. However that was hard physical work in sun that is much stronger than here.

The Workplace Regulations require that "during working hours, the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings shall be reasonable."

There is no minimum temperature (16 C is recommended in the approved code of practice). Workplaces should have a risk assessment that considers maximum temperature, but managing workplace temperatures all comes down to what is "reasonably practicable"

Next year I'll be working in 40c heat, wearing a heavy gown and mask and under hot lights.

I work in a portacabin. It's hell.

Our office certainly doesn't have air con. It's first floor and so the windows only open about two inches. I also work with the world's coldest woman and she was cold today so the window stayed shut. I was nearly passing out!

I agree with you Marmite that there should be an upper legal limit.

I shivered all day in a cold, over air-conditioned office today. I was so pleased to come out into 25 degree heat at 5pm.

At 40 degrees, I just want to strip off and lie very very still
People vary. I climbed up to the Alhambra in August in 42 degrees and would do it again.

My issue is that as soon as there is a bit of decent temperature, the aircon in my open plan office is turned up as far as it goes, so I'm shivering in cardigans while looking at the sunshine outside... IMO the UK does not need air conditioning.

Hell no. I'm already frozen to death as soon as the temperature reaches above 20 degrees.. A maximum temperature would be awful!

DH is a welder in a factory I'll tell him how hot you are at your desks he'll be so upset

What would happen legally if a person died of heat stroke at work.