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Experts highlight the model of occupational risk prevention in the industrial sector by their low level of accidents

30/11/2006

on November 30, 2006

More than fifty experts and representatives of key national industries and the regional administration highlighted in the technical workshops of Inerco the management of the prevention of risks is carried out in the Andalusian and national industrial sector by their low level of accidents. The head of the Provincial Inspectorate of labour and Social security of Seville, Carlos Domínguez Perejón, said that all those involved in prevention "must give a new meaning to preventive action to make it effective and integrated in the activity action and not a mere formal and documentary compliance". As a model, the experts attending the Conference highlighted the example of the industrial sector, especially that of the chemical industry, "since all its processes especially provides for the safety of the worker".

For its part, the Assistant Director-general of prevention and safety in the work of the Junta de Andalucía, Sebastian Chacón, presented the initiatives from the regional administration is being carried out to reduce accidents at workindicating that "the adoption of a preventive culture at all levels of society" should lead.

In the days Inerco techniques, attendees discussed about the "great challenge" to assume the obligations for the entire industry established in the future Reach Regulation of management of substances and dangerous preparations. This regulation will impose a framework more restrictive to the manufacturers and importers of substances and chemicals in quantities of more than one tonne per year, as it will force your registration before the future European Chemicals Agency, to assessment of associated risks and the authorisation and restrictions on the marketing of dangerous substances. Reach will enter into force next month of April 2007 and will affect more than 30,000 chemical substances and almost all of the industries. This new European regulation, currently undergoing approval, seeks increase the protection of health and the environment, while maintaining competitiveness in the industry and guaranteeing maximum transparency on the management of hazardous substances.

The days were, among other speakers, with the participation of the technical director of the Business Federation of the Spanish chemical industry (Feique), Francisco Pérez García, and the representative of Cepsa refinery La Rábida, Aurelius the Villa.

Inerco is dedicated to the development and implementation of engineering projects, the optimization of industrial processes engineering and specialized environmental consulting, risk prevention and industrial safety, and has extensive experience and maintains leadership in advanced engineering services offering. The company, which works with leading companies in the chemical, petrochemical, cement sectors and minerometalúrgico of the country, has vocation and national and international projection, and is present in almost all the Spanish geography through their delegations located in TarragonaMadrid and Zaragoza. Also, Inerco works in countries such as Italy, France, Portugal and Poland, with its most technologically advanced products. Andalusia opera, mainly in the chemical pole of Huelva and Campo de Gibraltar.