This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Put a temperature limit to stop work when the weather gets too hot.
Stop allowing people to work in 30degrees+
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Coming from a trades perspective it gets too hot for manual labour and physically exhausts you in this heat.
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Set a legal maximum temperature for all indoor workplaces
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588186
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