Update: everyone went into the conference room and we're chilling with snacks and refusing to go back into the main building until the HVAC tech gets out here
Small wins I guess
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Update: everyone went into the conference room and we're chilling with snacks and refusing to go back into the main building until the HVAC tech gets out here
Small wins I guess
Nice, hope the snacks suit you well
We're at the point they don't even care when the customers that can sue them get fucking KTFO.
When I was in undergrad I had a professor constantly grimly joke that OSHA was just a recommendation, that if they could they'd make workers roast inside the heat of the core of the sun.
I didn't even have to work in that kind of wetbulb at the bug farm. Highest it ever got was 88° and 90% humidity- but I was 20 feet from an external door where I could step outside anytime for cooler air. And eventually I ended up just turning the humidifier off during my shift because...
You are in a situation where the brain will start to think less clearly. You literally can't work in that for more than half an hour at a time, even someone who is heat-tolerant will be much slower and make all kinds of mistakes.
Please don't tell my skeleton it can simply leave. I need it
Go home.
Get your coworkers to walk out
Go home.
This is a LIVE THREATENING situation, remove yourself and others from this place with haste.
Wet bulb temperature? What's that?
This. for the love of god get a wet globe reading and go home.
https://www.hseblog.com/oshas-recommendation-for-temperatures-and-humidity-in-the-workplace/
go home; you have heat stroke
I mean I'll try to email the OSHA guidelines to someone but our boss and managers didn't even show up
Also I'm wearing an FR coat and goggles as PPE. Just drenched in sweat rn
girl you gonna die go home
no fr go home. Take a wet globe temp reading if you can but I promise you the jobs not worth it