Proportionate risk management call

31 July 2015

BOHS, The Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, has warned that a range of workers can be at risk of the effects of excessive heat in the workplace, from outdoor employees such as construction workers and sporting or leisure industry staff, to those in hot enclosed environments such as bakery workers, miners, boiler room workers and factory workers. The Society says employers may find it useful to distinguish between “thermal comfort” and “heat stress”.