Whoever lasts 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 in the workplace.
Press release
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, on the entire regional territory.
The ban applies in 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 the sun with physical activity intense 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 it is exposed personnel, thus avoiding seriously harmful consequences.
Like Fillea Cgil Calabria, in saying we are satisfied with the ordinance issued by President Occhiuto, we believe that this, however, must also be extended to workers in 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 and, above all, 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, regulatory intervention is essential structural of the National Government which definitively recognizes for workers in the construction supply chain access to the ordinary redundancy fund for climatic events, outside the limit of the 52 maximum weeks currently envisaged and provides automatic protection 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.
We now 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.
Simone Celebre
General Secretary Fillea Cgil Calabria
