US EditionAs Temperatures Climb, Precautions Critical for UPS Employees
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As with every new heatwave, the Ministry of Labor, like Public Health France, reminds us of the actions to adopt at work to reduce the risk of heatstroke, the latter which can quickly become a life-threatening emergency.
Employers’s duty of care: keeping workers safe in a heatwave
Employers should opt to make necessary reasonable adjustments for more vulnerable workers, for example to allowing employees to work from home or offer flexible working hours. The post Employers’s duty of care: keeping workers safe in a heatwave appeared first on Personnel Today.
As from 1 July, the protection of workers exposed to high heats is strengthened. Employers are obliged to analyse this risk and to determine measures adapted to the intensity of each canicule. With climate change, the Labour Code adapts to protect workers from peaks of heat. Thus, a recent decree extends the obligation to heat the premises to maintain a temperature adapted to the activity of the workers and the environment in which they operate.…
The Ministry of Labor and Social Security is taking emergency measures to address the heat stress of private sector employees due to the high temperatures expected to prevail on Friday, June 27 in certain areas of the country. Following the announcement by the National Meteorological Service (NMS) regarding the particularly high temperatures expected to prevail tomorrow in certain areas of the country and following a meeting with the General Sec…
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