Ainu to believe there should be a maximum acceptable temperature at work and school?

[workwoes123]

We are in France. It was 30 degrees in my office this afternoon. In some of the classrooms (I work in a school) it was 33 degrees. My own kids report that their classrooms, in another school, were also at 33 degrees this afternoon.

it’s intolerable. We had some students sitting a GCSE exam yesterday, and the room was 30 degrees. How are they meant to sit and think and work to the best of their abilities in those temperatures?

No air con, fans don’t help much - they just stir the air around.

At what room temp should we call it a day and go home?

The ward I work in is regularly at 30 plus, often 35 in summer, can't open windows as they have limiters incase someone decides to climb out.
Have to wear PPE, when we and the patients complain we are told write an incident form, and if we get enough we will hire mobile air con units. Guess we have never completed the magic number so we sweat away, I often feeling like downing tools but what can you do?

I don't believe the UK has legal limits for heat. I am dreading the summer. I do sympathise.

Poor ventilation and hot stuffy classrooms in the summer means that very little actual learning goes on. The kids are lethargic and can’t think properly (and the teachers, tbh).

Anyone concerned about kids actually getting an education as opposed to simply being kept in school over being sent home should support a massive national effort to improve ventilation in schools.

It’s completely irrelevant whether someone’s uncle works 24 hour shifts 7 days per week taste testing Carolina reapers on a treadmill inside an active volcano on the equator wearing a full insulated space suit, and doesn’t complain. It doesn’t make it any more comfortable or ideal for people working in hot conditions elsewhere.

The UK is a mild country and the vast majority of people here are not acclimatised to 30 degrees plus. I do wish schools would have more flexible uniform rules and both schools and workplaces dropped the “tough luck” attitude towards uncomfortable temperatures. People don’t all have the same level of tolerance for heat.

Yeah but no but, it's my son,not uncle, and he works 13 hour shifts 8 days a week. Luckily I only do 4 times per week, but that volcano won't cool itself.