Employment: Temperature
2026-05-19 · Department for Work and Pensions · 3463 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a maximum workplace temperature.
Answer
The Government is committed to ensuring workplaces are safe in the modern world and in ‘Next Steps to Make Work Pay’, we committed to look at how to modernise health and safety guidance for extreme temperatures. As part of this, the Health and Safety Exec...