UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say

The UK should introduce a maximum temperature for workplaces to protect people as heatwaves intensify due to climate change, the government's adviser has said.

UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said that rolling out air conditioning and other cooling technologies in schools and hospitals should be one of the government's highest priorities. It warned that increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and floods were threatening the British "way of life", from sports matches to music festivals. The government said it would carefully consider and respond to the committee's advice, adding it was already investing in flood defences. But Baroness Brown, chair of the CCC's Adaptation Committee, criticised the "woeful" performance of successive governments in tackling the present and future threats facing the UK from climate change. "We need to recognise that there are aspects of our British way of life which are now really under threat from cl...