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The snooze is optional. But as climate change intensifies, Northern
European countries are seeing the appeal of Spain's controversial
midday break.
THE TARMAC IN Madrid was around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) by
2.30 pm, the time José Antonio González started his shift as a street
cleaner on July 16. The 60-year-old didn’t arrive at work in the middle
of Europe’s heat wave unprepared. He carried with him two 2-liter water
bottles and a homemade water sprayer to keep himself cool, his son told
Spanish newspaper El Pais. But it wasn’t enough. Three hours into his
shift, he collapsed from heatstroke. He died later in a hospital.
González worked for the cleaning company Urbaser, which had already
been warned about making street cleaners work in the heat by Spain’s
labor inspectorate. Urbaser declined to comment. However Mark Barnhill,
a partner at Urbaser’s parent company, Platinum Equity, said: “Our
hearts go out to the family, friends, and colleagues of the Urbaser
team member, and to the thousands of other people who have suffered
heat-related deaths during the record-breaking heat wave that gripped
Europe this month.” Across Spain alone, there were 510 deaths linked to
high temperatures between July 10 and July 16, according to the Carlos
III Health Institute, a public health research body.
González’s death sparked an overhaul of the rules among the companies
that clean Madrid’s streets. In agreement with the city and local
unions, the companies banned working in temperatures hotter than 39
degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) and pushed shifts back from 2.30 pm to
5 pm. Despite Spain’s reputation for long lunch breaks, this is usually
more common for office workers, says Ángel Olmedo Jiménez, a partner in
the Madrid office of law firm Garrigues. “It’s not that common for blue
collar workers to have two or two and a half hours in order to have
lunch.”
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https://www.wired.com/story/how-siestas-might-help-europe-survive-deadly-heat-waves/
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European countries are seeing the appeal of Spain's controversial
midday break.
THE TARMAC IN Madrid was around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) by
2.30 pm, the time José Antonio González started his shift as a street
cleaner on July 16. The 60-year-old didn’t arrive at work in the middle
of Europe’s heat wave unprepared. He carried with him two 2-liter water
bottles and a homemade water sprayer to keep himself cool, his son told
Spanish newspaper El Pais. But it wasn’t enough. Three hours into his
shift, he collapsed from heatstroke. He died later in a hospital.
González worked for the cleaning company Urbaser, which had already
been warned about making street cleaners work in the heat by Spain’s
labor inspectorate. Urbaser declined to comment. However Mark Barnhill,
a partner at Urbaser’s parent company, Platinum Equity, said: “Our
hearts go out to the family, friends, and colleagues of the Urbaser
team member, and to the thousands of other people who have suffered
heat-related deaths during the record-breaking heat wave that gripped
Europe this month.” Across Spain alone, there were 510 deaths linked to
high temperatures between July 10 and July 16, according to the Carlos
III Health Institute, a public health research body.
González’s death sparked an overhaul of the rules among the companies
that clean Madrid’s streets. In agreement with the city and local
unions, the companies banned working in temperatures hotter than 39
degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) and pushed shifts back from 2.30 pm to
5 pm. Despite Spain’s reputation for long lunch breaks, this is usually
more common for office workers, says Ángel Olmedo Jiménez, a partner in
the Madrid office of law firm Garrigues. “It’s not that common for blue
collar workers to have two or two and a half hours in order to have
lunch.”
(continue)...
https://www.wired.com/story/how-siestas-might-help-europe-survive-deadly-heat-waves/
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