June 17, 2024 08:50
“He who endures wins. The president of the regional council, Roberto Occhiuto, last Saturday, after various requests from us, with his own ordinance issued the guidelines against the risk of heat on the workplace. The president’s ordinance, strongly requested by Fillea Cgil Calabria, aims to protect workers by imposing a ban on working in conditions of prolonged exposure to the sun, from 12.30 to 16.00, with immediate effect and until 31 August 2024, throughout the entire regional territory”.
He states it Simone CelebreGeneral Secretary Fillea Cgil Calabria.
And it continues: “The ban applies in the areas or areas affected by the carrying out of work in the agricultural and horticultural sector, as well as on construction sites and similar, limited only to the days in which the risk map indicated on the Workclimate website refers to: workers exposed to sun with intense physical activity at 12.00, signals a high level of risk. President Occhiuto’s ordinance therefore takes note, as we have repeatedly supported publicly, of the need, in conditions of prolonged exposure to the sun, to reduce the impact. of environmental thermal stress on health and, therefore, the risks to which staff are exposed, thus avoiding seriously detrimental consequences. Like Fillea Cgil Calabria, in saying we are satisfied with the ordinance issued by President Occhiuto, we believe that this, however, should also be extended to workers. workers from other sectors such as those workers who carry out significant physical activity or who are engaged in closed environments without adequate ventilation”.
“In consideration of the increasingly frequent hot summers – he concludes – and, above all, of the climate changes which determine increasingly significant repercussions on health and safety at work, we believe it is necessary that thermal stress is no longer considered extraordinary and that, therefore, it is a structural regulatory intervention by the National Government is essential which definitively recognizes for workers in the construction supply chain access to the ordinary redundancy fund for climatic events, outside the counter of the maximum 52 weeks currently envisaged and provides automatic protections for all types of workers, employees and self-employed, with the obligation for companies to remodulate timetables and workloads through specific agreements with the RSUs and the Trade Unions with particular attention to small companies. Now we hope and ask that all companies do their part and that there is, throughout the regional territory, maximum control by the Territorial Labor Inspectorates (ITL) on the correct application of the ordinance to avoid its distorted use.
