Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

HSE advice on thermal comfort is available on the Temperature pages of its website. The regulator reported a surge in people seeking advice during summer 2022 — with visits to its online hot weather working guidance increasing by nearly a thousand percent and the number of concerns relating to hot weather reported to the HSE almost doubling in July, when UK temperatures exceeded 40°C for the first time in history.

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