Labour MP: Workers should go home if the temperature exceeds 30c
82 replies, posted
The current health and safety regulations already have provisions for this - it depends on where you work, what sort of work you do, what clothing/equipment you have to wear and what measures are in place to control the temperature. Places like kitchens or boiler rooms are expected to be hot - but employees should have access to looser or cooler clothing, be able to work slower or be able to rotate tasks if possible.
[QUOTE=Aspen;41495162]Fair enough. Nice enough reply to a rude comment of mine.[/QUOTE]
Oh.
I'm almost disappointed.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;41495116]I'm merely telling people when they're being stupid.[/QUOTE]
That's a bloody full time job on this forum
The overreaction by Britain over a spike in temperature is getting ridiculous. Manage yourself and dress accordingly.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;41495585]The overreaction by British media over a spike in temperature is getting ridiculous. Manage yourself and dress accordingly.[/QUOTE]
FTFY
The only person I've heard complain the past week is my menopausal mother.
[editline]17th July 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;41495451]That's a bloody full time job on this forum[/QUOTE]
Maybe if I tell enough people, they'll stop it?
[QUOTE=Chubbs;41493683]Not as fun as going to australia in your "winter" and walking about in a tshirt and shorts whilst everyone is freezing to death around you.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of when my family lived in the Yukon for years. Came back down to southern canada, it was the dead of winter and my sister and parents were walking around in the sweltering 5C heat in shorts and tank tops
The office I work in has the air-con on so it's cold. When I go outside it feels like getting off a plane in a hot country.
[QUOTE=blah2;41494769]just because you're all used to lower temperatures doesn't mean you'll melt at 30 degrees celsius. the human body can adapt pretty well to temperature, as long as you aren't really young or really old.
you guys need to drink more water and stop complaining. it's not like you've been born at the north pole where it's minus all year round and you're shipped to africa at +50 celsius.[/QUOTE]
But again, only 2% of British homes have AirCon, and the humidity here is ridiculous
[QUOTE=Starpluck;41495585]The overreaction by Britain over a spike in temperature is getting ridiculous. Manage yourself and dress accordingly.[/QUOTE]
It's harder for some of us who have to wear overly-thick uniforms for work or school :/
Point is: It's hot for us. Just because you can deal with it easily, doesn't mean we can. And even if so, definitely not as easily as you can. Saying you can tolerate temperatures above 100 Fh is good for you, but it doesn't help the fact the heat's been declared an emergency. If you lived here all your life, especially in really cold areas, you would be feeling the exact same way we do. Some girl in my Sociology class fainted from the heat yesterday.
But to be the first post in this thread that's on topic, I'm really not agreeing with the MP here
[QUOTE=Starpluck;41495585]The overreaction by Britain over a spike in temperature is getting ridiculous. Manage yourself and dress accordingly.[/QUOTE]
Are you honestly saying this after you keep going on about how pathetic these temperatures are and how much hotter wherever you are is?
lol
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;41494863]At first it was annoying because it was a retarded thing to say, now it's annoying because it's both a retarded thing to say [I]and[/I] said in every single thread involving British weather. Seriously, run a search.
Most other crap that hit this level of repost-ness has become a bannable offence by this point; remember "convert them to communism"?[/QUOTE]
Maybe thread after thread about British weather should be bannable? Maybe make a British weather megathread? Seriously, between this and Travon Martin half of SH is taken up.
[QUOTE=_Kent_;41497868]Maybe thread after thread about British weather should be bannable? Maybe make a British weather megathread? Seriously, between this and Travon Martin half of SH is taken up.[/QUOTE]
Shock horror the (arguably) two biggest current news stories from the two countries that most frequent this forum are being discussed??
Whatever next?! People discussing things that have a direct effect on them??
What on earth do you expect in a news sub-forum.
[QUOTE=BAR;41497387]The office I work in has the air-con on so it's cold. When I go outside it feels like getting off a plane in a hot country.[/QUOTE]
Sort of. I'd liken it to being a lump of cheese that's been taken out of a refrigerator then after a while the cheese sweats out it's moisture and becomes soft and creamy. Most of this week I'd describe the feeling as a gooey Camembert and last weekend was more of a cheese dip.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;41495585]The overreaction by Britain over a spike in temperature is getting ridiculous. Manage yourself and dress accordingly.[/QUOTE]
It's Britain. We're like this. Very chatty about the weather, our primitive anglo minds.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;41495585]The overreaction by Britain over a spike in temperature is getting ridiculous. Manage yourself and dress accordingly.[/QUOTE]
Even if you dress as lightly as you can, 30C is still untolerable to people who are used to 15C overcast weather.
[QUOTE=Ond kaja;41499151]Even if you dress as lightly as you can, 30C is still untolerable to people who are used to 15C overcast weather.[/QUOTE]
Acclimatization takes at most around 2 weeks, but it's faster if the weather is debilitating. So they're either acclimatized and complaining for no reason or people are grossly overstating how awful the "heat" wave is.
Seriously, it's been over a week, these guys need to get used to it and suck it up. Heat waves like this will be increasingly common in the future. Put on some short shorts and a tank-top and sandals if need be. Open windows and get airflow through your house. Use fans to move the air around to cool you off.
I could understand how a sudden spike of heat could be unbearable on people, but it's been a week of heat. People should be used to it by now. Or they could take some of the advice that people living in hot weather have provided instead of sitting in a pool of their own sweat complaining and complaining.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41500378]Acclimatization takes at most around 2 weeks, but it's faster if the weather is debilitating. So they're either acclimatized and complaining for no reason or people are grossly overstating how awful the "heat" wave is.
Seriously, it's been over a week, these guys need to get used to it and suck it up. Heat waves like this will be increasingly common in the future. Put on some short shorts and a tank-top and sandals if need be. Open windows and get airflow through your house. Use fans to move the air around to cool you off.
I could understand how a sudden spike of heat could be unbearable on people, but it's been a week of heat. People should be used to it by now. Or they could take some of the advice that people living in hot weather have provided instead of sitting in a pool of their own sweat complaining and complaining.[/QUOTE]
2 weeks cannot undo a life time of being used to cold grey weather.
[QUOTE=Jsm;41500416]2 weeks cannot undo a life time of being used to cold grey weather.[/QUOTE]
Acclimatization takes plays in days to weeks. So, technically, yes, it can. You won't be as comfortable, since you aren't used to it, but there's no way in hell it'll be physically detrimental enough to stop people from working.
If this happened here, nobody would work during summer.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;41493597]Ahahaha. I spent last summer working in a warehouse that hit 108F during the heat wave. Do British people melt at that temperature just like their roads?[/QUOTE]
Wow, its like people are too daft to compreend that people who live in cold environments will eventually get used to the cold and not do well with larger ammounts of heat that would be regular anywhere else.
My guess is that if we were to put you in the UK in the winter, you would complain about the cold and the rain every single day.
[editline]18th July 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=spinpoint F3;41494650]You live on the sun?
Pussy, i live in the CORE of the sun, get on MY level SCRUB![/QUOTE]
Oh boy, I sure hope someone who is an actual burning star passes by and sees your post so they can take you down a notch you show off!
I'm mixed about this yes it is a bit extreme, plenty of other nations cope but I have to say it depends where and what your doing for work, after spending the past week labouring on a building site it can get pretty unbearable when it gets to the afternoon and your exposed and left without shade.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;41493597]Ahahaha. I spent last summer working in a warehouse that hit 108F during the heat wave. Do British people melt at that temperature just like their roads?[/QUOTE]
You do realise 2/3 of our days every year are overcast, and with pretty constant drizzle in what were considered 'the warmer areas'?
Just think and put it into context.
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