Four people have died in the last two weeks in France at work “possible link to heat” who touched the countryhealth authorities announced on Thursday, two more than in his previous report.From July 12 to 25, “4 deaths occurred during an orange or red heat wave surveillance,” the French public health agency declares in a press release. They were notified to the health agency by the labor inspection system The heat wave affected most of the territory, 96% of the population had at least one day of orange surveillance and 16.5% one day of surveillance red. This episode took over several departments in the southeast, with more than seven days of alert.

Public Health France did not elaborate on the nature of these deaths, their precise date or the identity of the victims. Contacted by AFP, the Ministry of Labor indicated that “it cannot make any comment” on this issue.

In the middle of summer in which Europe has already suffered two periods of heat wave, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) advocated on Monday for the adoption of a law that would set a maximum working temperature on the continent.“Two workers died of heat stroke in Spain last week. In France, a country that does not limit temperatures at work, 12 people died from heat-related occupational accidents in 2020,” the ETUC noted.

The agency promised a “consolidated count” of heat-related deaths by the end of the summer.