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 12, March 2010  

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WORKING TEMPERATURE REGULATIONS Minimize

Working temperatures


Minimum working temperature for working indoors

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 specify that during working hours the temperature at indoor places of work should provide reasonable comfort without the need for special clothing.

The Regulations helpfully give minimum comfortable working temperatures, which are:

  • 13°C if the work is strenuous
  • 16°C if it is not


If you're too cold at work buy heating for your office, factory or warehouse here.


Maximum working temperature for working indoors

The Regulations do not give a maximum comfortable working temperature but do provide advice on what to do if the working temperature is likely to get high enough to cause discomfort, such as:

  • insulate hot machinery or pipes
  • provide air-conditioning
  • provide shades or blinds for windows
  • move workstations away from areas subject to radiant heat


Optimum working temperature

The optimum working temperature for an office is generally recommended to be around 21-23°C.   In order to avoid extreme differences between outdoor and indoor temperatures its sometimes suggested that this can be increased slightly if its particularly hot outside. 

If you're too cold at work buy heating for your office, factory or warehouse here.

Outdoor working temperatures

There is obviously no control over temperatures outside but the Health & Safety Executive provides guidance on working safetly in hot or cold environments as well as how to take steps to protect workers from sun exposure.

 

Working temperatures


Minimum working temperature for working indoors

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 specify that during working hours the temperature at indoor places of work should provide reasonable comfort without the need for special clothing.

The Regulations helpfully give minimum comfortable working temperatures, which are:

  • 13°C if the work is strenuous
  • 16°C if it is not


If you're too cold at work buy heating for your office, factory or warehouse here.


Maximum working temperature for working indoors

The Regulations do not give a maximum comfortable working temperature but do provide advice on what to do if the working temperature is likely to get high enough to cause discomfort, such as:

  • insulate hot machinery or pipes
  • provide air-conditioning
  • provide shades or blinds for windows
  • move workstations away from areas subject to radiant heat


Optimum working temperature

The optimum working temperature for an office is generally recommended to be around 21-23°C.   In order to avoid extreme differences between outdoor and indoor temperatures its sometimes suggested that this can be increased slightly if its particularly hot outside. 

If you're too cold at work buy heating for your office, factory or warehouse here.

Outdoor working temperatures

There is obviously no control over temperatures outside but the Health & Safety Executive provides guidance on working safetly in hot or cold environments as well as how to take steps to protect workers from sun exposure.

 

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USEFUL HEALTH & SAFETY PUBLICATIONS Minimize

Look out for the Health and Safety Executive publication ‘An introduction to health and safety: health and safety in small businesses
 

The HSE website also features a 10-point list showing some of the key actions required by law that apply to nearly every business.


By law, you must consult all of your employees on health and safety issues at work.  The HSE publication 
Involving your workers in health and safety: A guide for small businesses, aimed mainly at employers with fewer than 25 employees, gives guidance on how this could be done.

Look out for the Health and Safety Executive publication ‘An introduction to health and safety: health and safety in small businesses
 

The HSE website also features a 10-point list showing some of the key actions required by law that apply to nearly every business.


By law, you must consult all of your employees on health and safety issues at work.  The HSE publication 
Involving your workers in health and safety: A guide for small businesses, aimed mainly at employers with fewer than 25 employees, gives guidance on how this could be done.

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Call 08700 434 284 and quote reference NLGS08

Single call charge £45 +VAT (subscription plans available).

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