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There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
If you run a food business, you must make and follow a system for managing…
Thorough cooking kills harmful bacteria. Undercooked food can cause food…
Chilling food Chilled food must be kept at 8°C or below. This is a legal…
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). You must be able to prove…
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). Cross-contamination is…
When you store and transport food make sure that: food is in packaging or…
This Heat-Health Alert action card summarises the suggested actions that providers of health or social care should consider at each Heat-Health Alert level.
Advice for people who have come into contact with Chapare virus.
This is an urgent public health message to health and care providers and professionals regarding the risk of heat stress when using PPE.
Advice for people who have been in possible contact with Junin virus, a virus that causes a disease called Argentine haemorrhagic fever.
This page advises healthcare professionals working within the community, care homes or hospital environments on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for.
This page advises social care managers on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for.
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