Faced with ever more frequent waves of heat, the public authorities strengthen the protection of workers exposed to high temperatures. Jean-Christophe Répon, president of the Confederation of Crafts and Small Building Companies, welcomes concrete measures to better protect employees.
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While France faces increasingly frequent heat wave episodes and the first heat wave of the year settled on France with a peak expected on Saturday, the public authorities published a decree at the beginning of the month and A decree aimed at better supervising work during hot weather. “”It allows us to make our job always attractive despite the difficulty working difficulties in the heat wave“, welcomes Friday, June 20 on Franceinfo Jean-Christophe Repon, president of the Confederation of Crafts and Small Building Companies (CAPEB).
These texts specify the obligations of employers and strengthen the protection of employees exposed to extreme climatic conditions, especially in the sectors of building, agriculture or logistics.
“We now have the capacity to rely on these orders to be able to suspend the work if the heat waves are too long.”
Jean-Christophe Répon, president of the CAPEBon franceinfo
“It is the responsibility of the business manager to organize working time, if possible to shift schedules, to work over the coolest periods, earlier in the morning“Explains the president of the CAPEB. Prevention also involves innovation: “There are more and more connected objects that allow us to monitor when the heat threshold is important. There are really technicalities that allow us to have self-regulated wet t-shirts, which lower the temperature, or even connected bracelets that alert us when we have to protect or stop“, Adds Jean-Christophe Répon.
Common sense measures remain essential: “Obviously, you need fresh water nearby, equipment that protects the employee well“Recalls the president of the CAPEB.
