Well
I'm sitting here in my office with a themometer that is reading 30C.

Who thinks this is far too hot!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:34, 12 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

The WHO
The organisation, not the band, recommend a max office temp of 25 degrees C.

So on that advice, yes, it is too hot, by 20%!
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:36, Reply)

Hmmn
Temperatures don't really work like that...

If it was in Fahrenheit then the office would be 86 F whereas the WHO recommends 77 F. It's too hot by 11.7% now.

Anyhow, it's too hot. Turn the radiators down, open some windows. Failing that, move somewhere colder.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Tue 5 May 2009, 15:18, Reply)

But it's a recommendation, not a rule
hence why I worked on Regent St in 40 degrees while all the products melted around me.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:38, Reply)

Yeah it's only a recomendation
40C Becky, I couldn't stand that. It's bad enough here now, It's making me all sleepy.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:45, Reply)

I keep reading swine flu stuff
going on about The WHO, and I'm momentarily confused every time.

What has Pete Townshend got to do with the outbreak?

I mean, he was cleared of the child porn charges - surely this is victimisation now?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:48, Reply)

What made it more fun was the black out that knocked out power on Regent st, tottenham ct rd and Carnaby st
Our store was half underground, so no light at all and lots of bumbling spanish people freaking out. They wanted us to continue working, despite the tills not working, or scales to weigh soap. Good thinking there!
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:48, Reply)

There's a legal minimum temperature
(16°C for indoor work I believe)

but no legal maximum, only a recommendation.

I used to cook in a restaurant and have seen that approaching 45°C in the height of summer, absolute torture!
(username1, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:56, Reply)

Becky
That sounds like a nightmare of a place to work for.

EDIT User, it's 13C if you work in a workshop and 16C for an office. I think the reason for no max temp is all to do with the so many different kinds of work. Like a kitchen if it was a max of 25C it would regularly get above that.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 5 May 2009, 14:56, Reply)

They could have a maximum as well
They'd just need more considerations (like the maximum for a kitchen being higher than most other places and so on). Being made to work in a stifling office because it's impractical to keep a restaurant kitchen below a comfortable (office) temperature is mad.

*hates hot weather*
( Captain V, Tue 5 May 2009, 15:18, Reply)

V
You're not the only one. I just wish the temperature would stay at about 20C all year round.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 5 May 2009, 15:21, Reply)

Agreed.
Hot weather can fuck off.
Comfortable t-shirt-and-leather-jacket-weather all the time would be great.
( Cawl, Tue 5 May 2009, 15:28, Reply)

That is too hot.
I worked on a chemical clean-up site in 2004, during the too-hot summer. I was one of the luckier ones on-site, as I could go and sit in an air-conditioned office and 'maintain' the computers.

The folk who were actually doing the digging for chemicals weren't so fortunate; they were wearing paper particulate-protection suits covered in rubber chemical-proof outfits, into which they were sealed in an air-tight manner with gaffer tape and fed air from a hose thirty feet away. The machine pumping air to them was run on diesel, and had a lovely warming effect on their circulated air. This was, apparently, pleasant enough in winter, when the freezing mud was up to the knee and the torrential rain hammered on their visors. In thirty-two degree blazing sunshine, however, it's not so nice.

One of them placed a thermometer next to their skin for curiosity's sake. They were working (quite hard physical labour, some of it) at about fifty degrees. I'm amazed no-one died, quite frankly.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 5 May 2009, 15:33, Reply)