B.C. has no workplace temperature limits. Advocates want change - OHS Canada Magazine

B.C. has no workplace temperature limits. Advocates want change - OHS Canada Magazine

Ingrid Mendez, executive director of the Migrant Workers Centre, says that during the 2021 heat dome agricultural workers slept in RVs at temperatures above 60 C and were required to work next door to wildfires. The Worker Solidarity Network is calling on British Columbia to introduce laws to protect people from extreme heat while on the job. The network held a rally of about 20 people at Premier David Eby’s MLA office in Kitsilano Friday to cal…