In NI employers have to stick to health and safety at work law ,temp must be at a comfortable level with a thermometer in clear sight of employees ,it falls under thermal comfort I believe .Yes I saw this! So good. It is ironic that the conspiracy theorists themselves are actually the ones who do the fear mongering.
I know, me too! I do wish there were legal limits on maximum workplace temperatures though
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That sounds decent, I know in England they don't have this (or if they do they never have applied it to anywhere I've worked!). I know people tomorrow who have to go and work in in settings that will definitely be over comfortable levels, in 2019 during a lesser heatwave two people at my friend's workplace had to go to hospital
Gosh yes some of the fires I've seen in Australia have been awful. I know the current European heatwave is already triggering fires in Spain and France. Really concerning!Yeah here in Australia our higher than normal summer temps have led to things like the devastating bushfires. It’s baffling to me that some think this isn’t anything to worry about
JeezThat sounds decent, I know in England they don't have this (or if they do they never have applied it to anywhere I've worked!). I know people tomorrow who have to go and work in in settings that will definitely be over comfortable levels, in 2019 during a lesser heatwave two people at my friend's workplace had to go to hospital
Gosh yes some of the fires I've seen in Australia have been awful. I know the current European heatwave is already triggering fires in Spain and France. Really concerning!
we’ve downed tools before that’s how I know they exist here .Temperatures in the workplace
Minimum TemperatureGuidance states that the temperature in the workplace should normally be at least 16 degrees Celsius unless the work requires
www.hseni.gov.uk
Wow I can't get over how comprehensive that is in comparison to oursJeez
Temperatures in the workplace
Minimum TemperatureGuidance states that the temperature in the workplace should normally be at least 16 degrees Celsius unless the work requireswww.hseni.gov.uk
. Initially I thought we had laws for minimum temperatures but according to this we don't have those either! I think it is deliberately vague so employers can do what they like. 
Workplace temperatures
There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
They get off with nothing hereWow I can't get over how comprehensive that is in comparison to ours
Workplace temperatures
There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonablewww.gov.uk
This may be an interesting watch…
You dirty little bugger. I love the smell of tarmac but it must have been awful for your mother to wash off.Seriously SO thick.The country has gone to absolute tit, the plague is running rife and there is a record high heatwave coming but no we aren't allowed to be concerned because it's all "media hype" and they survived, no relished the heatwave of 76
We have this warnings after the 2003 heatwave because there were so many excess deaths and that people won't not be taken by surprise. Virtually every comment I see on anything similar (monkeypox, polio etc) is either "" "Media scaremongering again!!" or "When I was a child we used to roll around in the melted tarmac and it never did us any harm!!"
If not then a simple hand fan - these are more effective than many people realise - can make all the difference. I've not yet needed to add the wet flannel on the head but as long as I know it's an option I don't have to stress about it.We’re not built for this weather in the UK, the infrastructure is not for such high temperatures. Hopefully cold water 🧊 and a fan/air con will be in close reach for most people.
Totally agree, I love my handheld fan lol. However I read once the air is a certain temperature it isn't much use having them on (maybe that is just for the larger fans though). My main concerns are for the elderly and for people who are having to go to work/school as usual.
Hence the wet flannel option - there is a maximum temperature for effectiveness but if you have a wet surface to evaporate water from then the moving air can still be effective.
IIRC it's around 45 degrees, extendable by 5-10ish(?) though by then you should be trying to find somewhere else to be if you possibly can.
On 'Handheld', I take it you are referring to one of those newfangled electrical things...?
I was meaning the simple spade shaped (or fold up) type, to be wafted with as little expenditure of energy as possible, whilst trying to keep the coquettish fluttering thereof to a minimum.
I love seeing things like this. I don't think they're done often enough, as a lot of people see a CT and think it's so silly that it's a waste of time trying to refute it. But I do think it's worth it.
Not that most CTists will pay it any heed. They're often on Twitter, hence falling over themselves to retweet/share CT tweets, but when they're disproven they go suspiciously quiet.
Just recently when the news of Ivana Trump dying broke, a heart attack was mentioned as a possible cause of death, so the CTists were happy to immediately link it to the covid vaccines. Yet now the news reports are saying she died from blunt force injuries to her torso, so it's likely she fell down the stairs at her home. But they'll either ignore that, or just say it's convenient/fake.
I think I haven't read this properly would this be adding the flannel to your head or over the fan? I just don't know how people in offices/childcare settings/public transport will be able to take safety measures. I really hope that employers make adjustments at least
. Oh no that's what I meant, just a fan you hold in your hand I didn't mean to make up a new term haha.
But the issue with a simple hand fan is that you have to hold it. I am too lazy to do that.
The Guardian published an article about this in 2019. I'd say that the numbers have increased since then. I'd say about 10% in the UK. I've also seen another article which reckons that about a third of the US population think that the risks of climate change have been exaggerated.
US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds
Out of 23 countries, only Saudi Arabia and Indonesia had higher proportion of doubters
www.theguardian.com
My view is that the climate change issue has become one of those polarised not to say politicised issues. I'm afraid the battle is lost and nothing or at least nowhere near enough is going to be done to mitigate it sufficiently. It probably won't affect me but I worry about what is going to happen within my grandson's lifetime.
The flannel is to be placed upon one's unbehatted bonce
Will have a look later to see if there is anything but anecdotally it's absolutely rife if you look under the comments of any newspaper article. I don't doubt that it has gotten worse through the pandemic as it fits into the "control" agenda. The problem is you can present the facts to people till you are blue in the face but if they are convinced it doesn't exist it seems really difficult to change their minds (in my experience).
I had a look at this Twitter thread and there's a comment that someone had seen a CT that unused Covid vaccinations are being used in chemtrails!
Waste not, want not!
To which inevitably the response from some quarters is
"well they would say that wouldn't they?" and to which my (just as inevitable) response is well they would say that wouldn't they?I must admit I am enjoying the suggestion that they take the temperature measurements at airports so the air is hotter due to the jet engines. Do they change the locations to branches of Iceland in winter?
Did anyone watch unvaccinated yesterday? I think someone mentioned it before
www.theguardian.com
Unvaccinated review – the most infuriating TV show of the year so far
Hannah Fry tries to change the minds of seven Covid vaccine refuseniks in this documentary … and you’ll need a saint’s patience to tolerate some of the responses
www.theguardian.com
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