Employment: Temperature
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a maximum workplace temperature.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The Government is committed to ensuring workplaces are safe in the modern world and in ‘Next Steps to Make Work Pay’, we committed to look at how to modernise health and safety guidance for extreme temperatures. As part of this, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reviewing the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) for the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 to ensure it is fit for purpose for a modern workplace.
HSE will be consulting on review of the ACOP and there will be an opportunity to respond in due course.
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