Welfare and low temperatures

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There are also ways to improve such working conditions, but there won't be any improvements on a large scale until acceptable limits to the kinds of site-endurance that's the subject of this discussion are formally recognised.

Try this for size:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/cis46.pdf

I urge all of you with any kind of management position to read and inwardly digest this document, which is what we base our requirements on. We do this for two reeasons: because we've all (well, most of us) worked in the field and suffered in cr*ppy site huts like the rest of you; and because our Health and Safety chaps told us that it's the minimum we need you to have to avoid you coming after us for compensation when you get frostbite or food poisoning.

We see it as part of our duty as 'designers' under the CDM Regulations, which our company insists we apply to all of our work (andregardless of whether our contractors think it should apply to them), to make sure that you go home in the same condition that you arrived.