Temperatures in the kitchen at Bistro 8 in Caerphilly hit 51C on the hottest day of the year on Monday. It will re-open on Wednesday with space made in the walk-in fridge for staff to nip in and cool down.
  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caEnglish
    129·
    7日前

    The wording of the title made it sound like authorities forced them to close. In this case the manager/owner decided to shut down because it was too hot for their own staff, so kudos to them.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      6日前

      I would have guessed something more like a manager saying, “Well, all my kitchen employees have gone to the hospital for heat stroke, so I guess we’ll have to close for the day, since they literally can’t work.”

  • Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    7日前

    Noone should be forced to work in temperatures over 30 degrees, anything over 25 should require free drinks and ice creams

    Basing that comment on Britain which falls apart in hot weather, your mileage elsewhere may vary

    • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      6日前

      Anything bellow 25 should require space heaters and the option to wear a blanket.

      Anyway, hello from Brazil. Yes, YMMV.

      • meco03211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6日前

        From the Midwest USA. If it was below 25 we might have a sweatshirt on. Anyone asking for a space heater would be ridiculed for their “thin blood”.

        Obviously I’m talking F for my area. Had to look up Brazil. Do ya’ll really get cold below 25C?

        • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6日前

          “All” is a lot of people.

          But we are in one of the coldest weeks of the year here. Everybody has used heavy coats all through the day, and complained about it.

          When I wrote my previous comment, my thermometer was marking 23.5°C. It was around noon, and it’s crazy cold for noon. But it’s still marking 23°C now at night (because my home is closed), what is not very cold (outside it probably is).

    • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      6日前

      Here in Canada we have laws regarding both minimum and maximum temperatures we’re allowed to work in, although it varies from industry and province.

  • underthunder@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    222·
    6日前

    This is without doubt a symptom of man-made global heating. And it will get worse. Eventually certain regions of the planet will be too hot for humans to live in. The data and scientific consensus prove it.

  • Nautalax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    6日前

    Buildings in the UK are designed to keep heat in to defeat the winter cold and up until recently A/C has generally been deemed an unnecessary luxury so it’s not terribly common.

    At the industrial site I worked at in in MS, A/C was considered crucial in the offices and if it broke they would generally start sending all people normally stationed in them who were not working on something absolutely crucial that had to be done there home as the temperature drifted up past like the low 80s or something (even in the winter all the computers could heat the office up to the 90s without A/C and in summer going outside was like walking into a mouth so you can imagine how unpleasant that was). They had certain actions and relief that they had to provide by procedure to people with long stay times at high temperature to comply with company and federal rules and it was prohibitive to do that for literally everyone so it was better to call it a WFH day for most people while the A/C got fixed.

    For some jobs in super toasty areas it was unavoidable though and they’d have countermeasures like ice vests, nearby break rooms with refrigerated water and fans that they were mandated to use with more breaks for hotter and/or longer stays, etc.