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Advice on staying well in cold weather, covering issues such as financial help, healthy lifestyle, flu vaccinations and heating.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Extreme heat presents a number of risks to health. This guidance helps professionals and the public address those risks.
There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
Information on how to stay safe in hot weather, including how to keep your home cool.
This information aims to assist professionals in protecting vulnerable people from the health impacts of severe heat in England.
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