I don't know anything about UK employment law but I don't really understand why the resistance to a maximum legal working temperature seems to be based on saying this would be impossible because there are jobs where people have to work with ovens or blast furnaces. We have a legal minimum working temperature but are still allowed to work in cold rooms and walk in freezers if it's time limited and sufficient protection is put in place - we have one at my work for seed storage, and people work in food storage warehouses. Does anyone know if there is actually a practical difference or is it just right wing scaremongering?
@afewbugs I guess there might be an argument that it will be easier for the big corporations to comply, they will grumble but install aircon. Small businesses (like a little cafe or shop) might find the expense too much and just have to shut when it is hot. TBH all business regulation is a bit like this, an answer could be to punitively tax large companies and use the proceeds to provide grants to small businesses, but that's not likely to happen.
@kbm0 @afewbugs when people said we need to learn to live with COVID, rather than it meaning "fuck it, ket people die" it should have meant "government provides grants to improve ventilation in shops and businesses". The same is true here. Part of the adaptation for climate change is installing heat pumps that can cool. With government grants if necessary.
@quixoticgeek @kbm0@mastodon.social @afewbugs
When are people going to realize that it's not COVID and climate change that are existential threats but instead rampant greed and corruption that all COVID and climate change to grow?
It's worth contacting your representative. Don't express your concern about these dangers. Simply ask the person on the phone when your representative plans to represent you.
@Wintergr33n @afewbugs awesome. Who's my representative?
