Heatwave: Employees put to the test at their workplace
With 12 departments placed on red alert on Monday, August 11, some workers are suffering from the extreme heat. Employers also have rules to follow.
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38°C are expected. These workers' working hours have therefore been shifted an hour earlier to avoid suffering from the extreme heat as much as possible. In the Alpes-Maritimes, a dry cleaner manager had the same idea. "I organize my work according to the temperature and the weather ," she explains. "Currently, with the extreme heat we're having, I only run the machines in the morning and never in the afternoon."
Since July 1, the law requires employers to comply with prevention rules to protect their employees: increasing the quantity of fresh water available, adapting working hours or suspending arduous tasks during the hottest hours.
"From 41°C in the internal body temperature, the cells begin to destroy themselves in the brain. So we begin to feel confused, to be disturbed, to feel nauseous, to lose consciousness, to not know how to behave in the face of heat," explains health journalist Damien Mascret.
Another solution implemented by some companies: relaxing the rules for teleworking to prevent employees from having to endure extreme heat in transport.
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