MAXIMUM WORKING TEMPERATUREI know I'm a little late to this party but I'm curious to know how these MPs think that the temperature in commercial kitchen areas will be kept down. Cooling generally uses energy, more than those businesses currently use, a thought that has been lost on the signatories of this EDM, many of whom have also signed EDMs in favour of reducing carbon emissions.
26.07.2010
McDonnell, John
That this House notes that whilst there is a legal minimum workplace indoor temperature there is no clear legal maximum workplace temperature so that conditions can vary greatly from employer to employer; further notes that many employees, particularly those working in bakeries, are often subjected to very high temperatures which can impact seriously on their health and well-being, with effects ranging from discomfort, stress, irritability and headaches, to extra strain on the heart and lungs, dizziness and fainting and heat cramps due to loss of water and salt; and urges the Government to provide clear and coherent guidelines to employers abouthow to combat heat in the workplace and to introduce a maximum working workplace temperature of 30C (86F) and of 27C (81F) for those doing strenuous work.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
EDM 630
EDM 630
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I'd like to know how they are going to manage a ship's engine room in the tropics where the temperatures can be 50 deg plus.
In my industry these facts have been known for at least the past hundred years. Lots of water and salt keep the cramps at bay.
Does he know the temps our troops in Afghanistan have to put up with?
So it's OK then to increase Global Warming by using extra energy to reduce temperatures for some workers?
That's the Kyoto Agreement out of the window then.
That's all the blast furnaces shut down then.
Your first problem was in assuming that there was any thinking involved...
And surely they're not suggesting they take (ughhh!) salt? Whatever next!
George Speller
Decent ventilation is really is not that expensive at all, nor does it cost a lot to run (take a look at some industrial fan catalogues).
And if you use the line of argumentation that safety cannot be afforded, how can you defend the requirement for any H&S rule that protects people?
Now some workplaces will always be impossible to cool (steel furnace or indeed, the machine room of a ship), but a kitchen is not really a huge technical challenge at all to ventilate, it can easily be done.
The problem is more psychological, because ventilation is seen as a pure cost (the oven costs money too, but you can see the need more clearly) -- in the same way that very few restaurants would use hygienic rules of their own free will if it was not policed.
Btw, a lot of COPD victims end up 24/7 connected to an oxygen generator which use abotu 40w/hr depending on the model. So what we save now in lecki on fans we later on spend on medical machinery.
Type correction: 400w an hour, not 40w.
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