The thermal wave continues to damage the cleaning service in Barcelona. After the death of the employee last Saturday, after they accused high temperatures during the day, on Tuesday, for the same reason, he had to be treated in medical centers, two employees had to be treated.
CGT Union condemned that both suffered from heat, working on the street for Urbaser, one of the subcontracted by the city council. The Union condemns that the company does not facilitate the protocols against heat or material in order to soften it between its template.
The first employee who suffered on Tuesday was a dizziness at 10:00 in the morning, working on foot, covering the street, in the confluence of Badajoz and Pallars streets, in the area of Polynu. According to the city council, the company, on the use of the protocol, called the emergency care service (SEM), which transferred it to the primary medical care center. The company guarantees that the employee is good now.
According to the sources of the consistory, the second employee, from another region, was much found at 12:00 and passed through his own leg, accompanied by with workers to the medical center. CGT explained that this is the driver of the driver, and worked on a car without air conditioning. The company also guarantees that everything is in order.
Victoria Chakon, a CGT representative in Urbasser, explains that the trade union a few days ago condemned the labor inspectorate that the temperature inside the wide machines exceeded 41 degrees, the situation “is unstable that the workers are dangerous.”
Chacon criticizes the situation in which the template lives: “This is an extreme risk for our lives, no one cares about us, and the company does not facilitate water, restrictions or protection from the sun. On the contrary, we must work with a uniform, which still adds more heat to us. ” The trade union trade union condemns that the company has changed the schedule for other summer. “Before we started working at 5:30 in the morning. This year, in order to save half an hour “Nocturn”, we started at 6 o’clock, ”denyes.
CGT also condemned that he repeatedly asked for the company’s protocol in risk situations from high temperatures, and the company did not provide it. “Workers receive a triptych with four basic evidence, but without a clear protocol and which protects us,” they explain.
These two health derivatives are produced a few days after the death of the Montserrat Agilar, also an employee for cleaning roads in Barcelona hired by the FCC, also after a working day in the middle of the heat.
