Europe is experiencing record temperatures, and extreme heat is posing a threat to people’s health both at home and in the workplace, according to a report by the European Trade Union Institute.

As reported by Euronews, the institute, the research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation, included recommendations in the report aimed at protecting workers’ health in the context of climate change.

One of the report’s authors stressed that the risk is not confined to southern Europe.

“Of course, the situation is worst in the south because that is where the highest number of incidents is recorded. At the same time, however, the sharpest increase in such incidents is being observed in Central and Northern Europe. The south is already hot, but the centre and the north are rapidly reaching the same level,” said Andreas Flouris, Professor of Physiology at the University of Thessaly.

According to the report, around 130 million workers across Europe are exposed to heat stress in the workplace, resulting in approximately 277,000 occupational injuries and 230 deaths each year.