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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.

This petition was rejected

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You may like to sign the below petition which is currently open on this topic:

Set a legal maximum temperature for all indoor workplaces
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588186

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