The Union of Labor and Social Security Inspectors, together with Fesess, Sislass, Adi and Seslaess, believe it is urgent to prepare this protocol due to the workload of the inspectors after the Royal Decree approved in July.
Labor inspectors and sub-inspectors have asked the General Directorate of the autonomous body of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate to draw up a protocol to avoid Covid infections on their visits to companies.
In a joint statement, the Union of Labor and Social Security Inspectors, together with Fesess, Sislass, Adi and Seslaess have stressed that the realization of this protocol is urgent given the volume of workload of the inspectors after the approval, last July, of the Royal Decree that established urgent prevention, containment and coordination measures to deal with the health crisis.
This demand from the inspectors and sub-inspectors is due to recent events regarding personnel with inspection functions during their visits to the provinces of Lleida, Huesca and Málaga, in which these personnel have been in direct contact with workers affected by coronavirus. or have had a real and direct possibility of contagion.
They also request that PCR tests be carried out on personnel with inspection functions when, as a consequence of carrying out their work, they have been in contact with people who have tested positive for coronavirus or if they have had the possibility of becoming infected.
"Such a measure is clearly essential as a way of stopping real contagion as well as a preventive measure for spread," says the statement, which also highlights that currently the personnel with inspection functions constitutes "a vector of transmission of the virus, with the multiplying effect that this implies, both for the rest of the public employees, and for the people with whom the labor inspectors have to interact when carrying out their duties.
The inspectors record that they will not carry out inspection functions if there is a real risk of contagion until the negative result is verified through the performance of the PCR test.
The unions of this group have also urged the adoption of disinfection and cleaning measures at the headquarters of the Provincial Inspections where there have been personnel with inspection functions who have had contact with people affected by Covid or where there was a real and direct possibility of contagion. .
In this sense, they state that, due to their professional activity, inspectors are one day in the field with some seasonal workers and the next day in a company with a coronavirus outbreak. "We go with PPE, but they should do PCR on us when we go to risk sites or where there are positives," they concluded.
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