working place temperature

[chazza]

Does anyone know the legal minimum temperature for a workplace (office)?

[finnyfaddler]

16 degrees.

[chazza]

Thanks - we're well below it here then!

[JudgeJ]

Where are you?

Sixteen degrees (Celcius, 60.8 degrees Fahrenheit) is the limit (which must be achieved within one hour of starting time).

[beejaybee]

Doesn`t it depend on the sort of place you work?? My husband works in a meat preperation area & that is constantly at 0.

[beejaybee]

Sorry. I did not notice you put office in brackets.

[chazza]

We work flexi time and have to be in between 8am and 10am - I came in at 9.10am which was when I took the temperature reading, but there were others in my room from shortly after 8.

How does this apply to the one hour thing?

[JudgeJ]

The legislation says "within one hour of work starting". So, if your employers want to employ people from 3am, they have to make sure the building is at the required temperature by 4am. The fact that others may start later does not alter this.