Lack of workplace heat law challenged

19 July 2013

An Early Day Motion has been put forward by Labour MP Linda Riordan to challenge the lack of a workplace heat law in the UK.

It comes at a time when many media outlets and advice services are telling overheated workers there is no legal maximum temperature for a workplace, but employers do have a duty of care to their employees.

Riordan’s EDM has called for a maximum workplace temperature of 30˚C – and 27˚C for those in strenuous jobs – at which staff must be sent home.

The EDM was tabled four days ago and has already attracted a total of 29 signatures so far.

This is an issue the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union has been campaigning on for years.