Submitted on Friday 26th July 2019
Rejected on Monday 5th August 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce a health and safety law for the maximum temperature in a workplace.
Currently there is no legislation preventing employees from working as normal when faced with extremely high temperatures. Many institutions lack air conditioning/regulating systems and without proper legislation employee welfare is often neglected.
Further, inherently hot working conditions (approx 30-35 degrees celsius) in food factories can overheat to extreme temperatures such as 66.7 degrees celsius. Employers are not obligated to put a stop to work in such conditions or to even increase remuneration. Moreover, heart disease risks and other health problems can be neglected by the employer when providing workers with such unprecedented conditions posing a risk to their lives.
https://www.gov.uk/workplace-temperatures
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/267930
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