The employer advises that, “in companies where you cannot keep your distance, continue to use it for a few more weeks”, and Health recommends it in crowds
The obligation to wear a mask in interior spaces ends today, but thousands of workers still do not know if they will have to continue using them or not. It will depend on the decision made by the company in which they work, which has the last word on whether or not to maintain protection in the workplace. It will be the prevention services of each company that determine the obligation depending on the circumstances in which the work is carried out. A decision that many companies, with a good part of the Region still partying, have not yet made. The central government’s decision to postpone until today the publication of the royal decree that must contain the details and the small print of the measure did not help clarify the issue yesterday.
Under these conditions, the instructions for officials who carry out their work in public agencies are not defined either, who in principle are not obliged to wear it but, according to sources from the Ministry of Health, will receive more specific recommendations when the decree is made public and the Covid committee meets today. The regional Executive will have to decide on what to do in public centers that provide face-to-face care to citizens, although the counselor has already ruled in favor of keeping the mask. “Despite ceasing to be mandatory, the Ministry of Health will continue to recommend its responsible use when there are crowds or the safety distance is not respected,” the Ministry highlighted yesterday, regretting that the details have not been reported to the authorities. communities. The UGT and CC OO unions have also been in favor these days of keeping the mask inside the workplace for at least one more month.
The Croem employers’ association, for its part, yesterday made clear its will to “give companies total and absolute freedom so that they are the ones to decide in dialogue with their own workers whether the mask should continue to be used or not.” However, the president of Croem, José María Albarracín, insisted that, in those companies “where the correct distance cannot be maintained, they continue to be used for a few more weeks.”
Thus, it will be the companies that, through their occupational risk departments, will specify their decision, which will depend, in any case, on what the BOE indicates today. Those responsible for the prevention of occupational risks and in accordance with the risk assessment of the job “could establish the appropriate preventive measures that they deem appropriate, including the possible use of masks if this is derived from the assessment”, the minister said yesterday.
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