If you are an office worker, then you no doubt know how hard it can be to come up with creative ideas, chat with clients, or strike a balance, chattering teeth from the cold or choking on the heat. But far from all employees know that there is a law where it is clearly stated what temperature and humidity should be in the workplace.
If the employer stubbornly does not want to install the air conditioner, and therefore steam is already coming from you, go to him and refer to “Hygienic requirements for the microclimate of industrial premises. SanPiN 2.2. 4.548-96 “, approved in the framework of the law” On the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population “, adopted by the State Duma in 1999. These requirements are obliged to comply with all, without exception, “heads of enterprises, organizations and institutions, regardless of the form of ownership and subordination.” So far, no one has canceled or changed them.
By law, with an eight-hour working day, the air temperature in the office space should be 23-25 ° C in the warm season and 22-24 ° C in the cold (with a relative humidity of 40-60%). Deviation from the norm is allowed only by 1-2 ° C. The permissible temperature fluctuation during the working day is no more than 3-4 ° С.
So, you are obliged to serve all the prescribed 8 hours at work, only if the office is not more than 28 ° C. With each extra degree, reduce your working day by an hour: 29 ° С – 6 hours, 30 ° С – 5 and then in descending order. And when the heat in the office reaches 32,5 ° C, you have the legal right to leave in an hour.
If it is too cold in your office, the working day will also be shortened. At 19 ° С – up to 7 hours, 18 ° С – up to 6. And then – minus one hour with a decrease in each degree. If the temperature drops to 13 ° C, you will need to hold out for only an hour. And so that everything is strictly according to the law, hang a thermometer at a height of 1 meter from the floor.
By the way, the rules of SanPiN also indicate the permissible wind speed in the office: it should be no more than 0,1-0,2 m / s.
It remains to convince the authorities that this is how it should be. Can you do it?