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Shishi city Federation of Trade Unions Labor Law Supervision Letter [2022] No.3 Lion Labor Supervision Letter

All employers in the city:

Our city is gradually entering the hot season. In order to ensure the safety and health of employees in the production process during high temperature, according to the Regulations on Labor Law Supervision of Trade Unions in Fujian Province, employers are reminded to pay attention to the following matters:

First, according to the production characteristics and specific conditions, establish and improve the heatstroke prevention and cooling system, reasonably arrange working hours, strictly control overtime, formulate emergency plans for high-temperature heatstroke, and take effective measures to effectively strengthen labor protection for high-temperature weather operations and indoor high-temperature operations to ensure the health and life safety of workers.

2. According to the provisions of the Notice on Further Improving the Work of Heatstroke Prevention and Labor Protection in High Temperature Weather, the provisions of outdoor open-air operation in high temperature weather shall be implemented: when the daily maximum temperature reaches above 40℃, outdoor open-air operation shall be stopped; When the daily maximum temperature is above 37℃ and below 40℃, the continuous working time outdoors shall not exceed 6 hours; If the daily maximum temperature reaches above 35℃ and below 37℃, shift work should be adopted to shorten the continuous working hours of workers.

To implement special personnel protection, pregnant female workers and underage workers shall not be arranged to work in outdoor open places above 35℃ or indoor places above 33℃.

Three, in accordance with the "Notice on Adjusting the Summer High Temperature Allowance Standard" provisions of the payment methods and standards, timely and full payment of high temperature allowance. Among them: May is calculated according to the actual high temperature days, and the payment standard is 12 yuan/day; From June to September, it will be distributed monthly or according to the actual high temperature days, and the distribution standard is 260 yuan/month or 12 yuan/day.

Four, reasonable planning and layout of the production site, improve the production process and operation flow, take good heat insulation, ventilation, cooling measures, to ensure that the workplace meets the requirements of national occupational health standards.

Five, the implementation of various logistics services, to provide employees with the necessary labor protection supplies, heatstroke prevention drinks, health care products and essential drugs, not to issue currency instead of heatstroke prevention drinks, heatstroke prevention drinks shall not offset the high temperature allowance.

Six, strengthen the occupational safety and health education and training of workers, and popularize basic protection knowledge such as high temperature protection and heatstroke first aid.

Seven. Strengthen the occupational health examination of workers exposed to hot weather before, during and after taking up their posts. If it is found that his physical condition is not suitable for high-temperature working environment, he shall adjust his post in time, and the expenses for occupational health examination shall be borne by the employer.

Eight, it is difficult to determine whether the workplace of workers belongs to high temperature places, and it is agreed through democratic management procedures such as collective consultation. Workers who suffer from heatstroke due to high-temperature operation or high-temperature weather operation and are diagnosed as occupational diseases are entitled to work-related injury insurance benefits.

Doing a good job of heatstroke prevention and cooling is the premise of orderly production and operation activities in high temperature season. Let's constantly improve working conditions and measures to ensure the physical and mental health of employees and promote the development of enterprises!

Shishi city Federation of Trade Unions Labor Law Supervision Committee

July 2022 1 1

Questions and answers related to high temperature allowance

1. What is the high temperature allowance? What are its distribution scope and conditions?

● High-temperature allowance is a post allowance enjoyed by workers engaged in high-temperature operations according to law.

Enterprises, individual economic organizations, private non-enterprise units and other organizations in Fujian Province, which arrange workers to work in the open air in hot weather from May to September every year, cannot take effective measures to reduce the workplace temperature below 33℃, shall pay high temperature allowance to the workers and include it in the total wages.

2. What is the standard for granting high temperature allowance in Fujian Province?

May: according to the actual high temperature days 12 yuan/day.

June-September: It can be distributed according to 260 yuan/month or actual high temperature days 12 yuan/day.

High temperature allowance is included in the total wages, but not in the minimum wage.

3. Can the high temperature allowance not be issued?

● The high temperature allowance is not a "welfare" that can be paid or not.

If the employer fails to pay the high-temperature allowance according to the regulations, it is a deduction or unpaid wages without reason. The labor security supervision institution may order it to pay within a time limit according to law, and if it fails to pay within the time limit, it shall be ordered to pay compensation.

The employing unit shall provide enough heatstroke prevention and cooling drinks and necessary medicines for the workers working in hot and hot weather while granting the high-temperature allowance. Such as distributing mung bean soup, watermelon and other heatstroke prevention and cooling foods or related drugs. However, employers cannot use this as a substitute for the high-temperature allowance, otherwise it will infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of workers in disguise.

4. Can I get the high temperature allowance when I work night shift?

The conditions for granting high temperature allowance only depend on whether the working environment is outdoors and what the working environment temperature is, and have nothing to do with day shift and night shift.

5. The employer does not issue high temperature allowance. How do workers defend their rights?

Workers should keep time sheets, weather forecasts and other valid evidence to prove that their working environment meets the standards for granting high-temperature subsidies.

At present, workers in Fujian Province can reflect their demands through complaint reporting window, telephone 12333 and platform 12345, and labor security supervision institutions at all levels will seriously investigate and deal with them according to law.