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Occupational health and safety focus day chemistry in Tarragona

01/08/2004

The improvement of occupational health, industrial safety and the environment focused the workshop on the chemical industry held last June in La Pobla de Mafumet (Tarragona) and developed by representatives of public administrationstrade unions and companies.

Around one hundred attendees participated in the day with the aim of analyzing the chemical Convention XIV adopted on 21 May and which affects 240,000 workers of all Spain, 100,000 of them in Catalonia and a large part in the Tarragona petrochemical complex.

Aspects relating to the improvement of occupational health, industrial safety and the environment focused on the topics of study, emphasizing issues such as the training of workers, own or subcontracted, and the Act on the prevention of occupational hazards in the chemical sector.

In this sense, it departió on the need to coordinate the recruitment companies and own company templates, as reflected in the Convention, because "the chemical industry is not a mosaic of companies, but a homogeneous group which provides comprehensive answers", said the Vice President of the Association business chemistry of Tarragona (AEQT), Jesus Loma.

In this line, the director-general of the AEQT, Javier Bort, stressed that the rate of accidents at work in the chemical industry "tends to homogenize it, i.e. in the companies contracted by specialized and specific maintenance services have moved from 14.2 the year 2001 to 6.1 last year".

This figure is close to the average of the companies affiliated with the AEQT, which is 2.2, explained Bort, who also presented the axes of the new training program, which increases the number and range of courses that teach, intensifying the control mechanisms and expands the training hours. This program, agreed upon between the parties concerned, will be introduced from September.