Personally I feel they have a duty of care to nowadays. Perhaps begin a campaign? It’s a bit like not providing hi vis vests and other safety gear. And it’s not exactly cheap if you’re having to slip slap slop daily.
Maybe the employer would claim that they included the cost of sun protection in the salary?
No, I'm afraid not
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Likewise….although perhaps a few years earlier…holiday was always down to Devon or Cornwall…days on say Woolacombe beach, building sand castles and getting burnt….result, the receptionist at the local hospital addresses me by name before I’ve said anything, as I rock up for another appointment with Dermatology
Sorry to hear this, yes, my brother and I similarly. I vividly remember having skin peeling competitions with him as skin healed and fell off over the days and weeks later! It was agony - before we were put into our NYLON T-shirts! The 70s eh, such innocent times, with potentially deadly consequences many of us are only beginning to realise now. So if you’re a young ‘un reading this, especially fair skinned, get the factor 50 on every day Easter through to September. RIP Sean Lock, taken far too early.
Apart from one day so far, WHAT heatwave
How does everyone cope with holidays in hot climates?
FFS!
How does everyone cope with holidays in hot climates, or God forbid live in a hot climate.
FFS!
One difference could be that due to the normal climate in the UK, buildings are designed to, for example, hold heat better than, say, Mediterranean buildings which have a different normal climate/average temperature and humidity. Therefore when the weather is unseasonably different, it can feel very uncomfortable despite it being what we might experience comfortably elsewhere.
My dad had a place in Cyprus for a number of years and it was freezing in winter as the design standards there were to deal with heat as a day to day thing.
My theory might be guff, of course (particularly as I have Covid at the moment)!
Not just you, Icy.
Anyone remember 76? Now that was hot. And dry. A young Beefy Botham dazzling in his whites. Plagues of ladybirds. And the old bat I worked with had, only months before, been bleating 'we're going into another Ice Age'.
That was a hot and long summer. Not to mention the drought,apparently 16 months it lasted. Having to go to the top of the road to get water from a standpipe!
https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/recalling-1976-drought-40-years