Dear All I am looking for a little advice on temperature risk assessments in our theater / cinema as (after someone fainting during a hot show) it transpires that we do not have one. On the HSE website it has details for the minimum temperature, but not the maximum, or much guidance that i could find. Links to relevant websites would be most appreciated. Kind regards

Thats because their is no max temp! You need to as said do a risk assessment especially to see what your ventilation is like and air flow values.

If I might play Devil's Apricot for a moment.... Are you sure you actually need a dedicated risk assessment for this? You had one person faint during a performance. What did the temperature get to?

What was the full reason for her fainting? Was it just the heat or were other factors involved? It is probably too late now for an investigation on this, but I would be caution about just attributing the fainting to the heat. Chris

Hello All thanks for the replies so far. Ian, the event was ballet, so i dont think had any contributory factor in the incident. No blood and guts or enough naked flesh to make a 60's male hot under the collar. Chris, the Ambulance service did attend and part of their discussion did reveal that he had only had a sandwich for lunch, but older people do eat less than gluttonous hockey playing 20 somethings (that's me). There was no other contributing factors that i could gather, but as a result of less than helpful volunteers giving disinformation to the punters wife, investigative efforts from me would have gone down as well as norovirus on the underground. I am sure that there would have been other factors, but one known one was the heat, however that does not necessarily imply that it was too hot in general. Red Ken (who will you be voting for...?) that link is most useful, information that you kind of know, but written from a reputable source, but, like you say at the end, it is up to the public to make their own judgement on what is too hot, i know it was a lot cooler than some of the clubs i've been too, but then i probably had less cloths on (part of my dynamic risk assessment of course) SafetyAmature Ahh the role i love to play myself... but in this case i think yes. a requirement from the Ballet group is that the venue is "warm", they have not supplied a specific temperature and the Technical manager has not asked for one, but if we are intentionally raising the temperature i believe that we should set limits on what the maximum should be as heat exposure is a known risk and we do attract a large silver pound. As for the specific temperature, i'm still waiting, but have asked again... What i was ideally hoping for, was a specific 'recommended' temperature range, so then we can at least say to complaining (remember the customer is always right) delightful members of the public the temperature is ZZ oC which is within the guidelines set by XX (reputable group) I'll keep looking and re-post if i ever get anything reliable... Thanks again Dave H