The acceptable workplace temperature for office workers is a range of 22-24 degrees during the cold season and a range of 23-25 degrees during the warmer months. For some applications, the indicated optimum temperature may differ.
Many office workers, other workers have repeatedly heard that the employing company is obliged to maintain a certain temperature in the workplace. This measure is provided for by law, aimed at protecting the health of workers, since work at high or low temperatures has an extremely negative effect on the body. Most of the organizations in our country ignore the relevant requirements, which is especially felt by office workers in the summer. Meanwhile, failure to meet the requirements for maintaining the optimal temperature at the workplace entails the employer's obligation to reduce the working time by a certain number of hours (depending on the type of work and the degree of temperature deviation from the norm).
What temperature should the employer provide for office workers?
The temperature ranges that organizations must maintain for their employees are determined by current sanitary regulations. In this case, the specific value of these quantities depends on the season, type of work (level of energy consumption of the employee). The most urgent issue of maintaining the temperature regime is for employees of numerous offices, who literally languish from the heat in the summer. The standard temperature value in this case should be 23-25 degrees Celsius in the summer. In the cold season, this value changes to a range of 22-24 degrees. If a deviation from the given values is recorded at the workplace, then employees may demand a reduction in working hours until normal working conditions are ensured.
How is working time reduced
Sanitary rules, which establish the optimal temperature maintained at the workplace, also determine the limits of the reduction of working hours in case of violation of the corresponding temperature regime. So, if the air temperature in the office exceeds the permissible values by 3.5 degrees, then the working time should be reduced by one hour. If the excess is 5 degrees, then you can work in the office no more than five hours a day. It should be borne in mind that for other categories of workers (for example, those employed in production facilities) their own values of permissible temperatures and maximum deviations have been established. In addition, the legislator limits not only the permissible values of the air temperature, but also the temperature of surfaces, the speed of air movement, and a number of other parameters.
