So many references to a document that it’s self says does not apply to under 18s!
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I guess that makes sense. You wouldn’t want people to be able to quickly cool down in some water so it definitely makes sense to cancel any water based activities.
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We had this discussion on the sqn last night… 
A good job that we concluded our latest roudmarching training serial last weekend
why not simply a “low level warning” you know like the traffic system to highlight some risk but it is moderate. lets call that first level “yellow”.
this would be an indication that for “most” it will be a hot time, but can carry on “as normal” whereas the vunerable need to take more care.
if we go up a level, lets call it an amber warning, more people need to care care, and red everyone is impacted.
what would help is to see this as a visual scale.
does it look like this:
if so do we have an Yellow 1, and Yellow 2 scale, and amber 1 and amber 2 scale?
while i get what the health alert is trying to achieve, it appears to be adding resolution to a system which doesn’t need it if what the “weather warning” is better defined…
Is it not just that the two warnings are issued by different bodies? Health warning from the Health Security Agency and weather warning from the Met Office.
The Met Office warnings seem to be more about environmental hazards and travel impact, e.g. flooding, icy roads etc., whereas health warnings seem to be when the weather can directly impact people, like the heat can.
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New update from the RC at 15:28, sent to me at 15:35
The previous activities subject to review are now all approved, so the only cancelled activity is Road Marching (makes complete sense) & those in draft on Thursday.
There are some assumptions from the RC, which all align with the HIP training we all undertake, there also seems to be an acknowledgement of the confusion between the 2 alert systems.
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All seems pretty reasonable!
This ‘proposed’ policy really does need to be formalised and published to help in these situations.
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i will second this!
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It’s very warm today, glad I’m in shorts and not in uniform at all
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Still a big band of rain running from Scotland right through to the South coast! Should help keep the absolute maximum temps down a little bit.
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I actually got quite wet on the way into town just now!
This line here has been moving East across the UK all day. I had some rain earlier from it and it’s certainly put the humidity up to pretty bad levels.
Credit where credits due, Region nailed the approach to this.
Only feedback ive given is comms like this, region should just send all. Trickle down comms dont work and some of comments in this thread have proven that theres potentially people in SW region that dont know the latest.update.
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I missed that, was at a 5 year old bowling birthday party
Certainly never made it to me.
UK Health Security Agency has issued a number of Yellow & Amber that is in effect from now through to Monday for the majority of the UK apart from the “North”.
Of note it runs until 1800 on Monday, despite the BBC forecasting higher temps in some places on Tuesday.
Standing by for a full activity review of events happening this weekend
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Heat health alerts. Not weather warnings. But I’m sure the unknown policy which says weather warnings will once against get enforced…
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Just been on to register for alerts. The system only covers England. I could not register for Wales. Scotland and NI. Health is a devolved issue so the nations will have/do not have* their own system in place.
*Delete as necessary
Not sure it ever gets hot enough in either of those places to need heat health alerts 
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