Barcelona opinions the cleansing protocols after Montse’s loss of life: extra breaks and safety from 34 levels | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The relations of Montse Aguilar, the 51 -year -old cleansing employee who died in Barcelona final Saturday after finishing her workday and in the course of the warmth wave, have partially achieved what they had been searching for: that the operators are protected extra earlier than the excessive temperatures, that nobody suffers greater than mandatory sweeping beneath the solar; In brief, you’re already ready for the post-mortem to specify the causes of loss of life, which doesn’t occur once more an occasion like Montse’s.

After a really heat first response, through which he even refused to open an investigation and warranted that every thing had gone nicely, the Barcelona City Council has modified steering. The first deputy mayor, Laia Bonet, has met on Wednesday with the unions to evaluation the protocols for performing earlier than excessive temperatures. The assembly has come out with an settlement: evaluation the protocols and “unify them”, taking the very best of every home, in order that extra safety is supplied to the employee.

Barcelona offers the cleansing service by 4 corporations, that are distributed by the completely different areas of town. Each of them has a particular protocol for top temperatures. “We have decided to unify them. We will incorporate the best practices of each of them, all companies will have the maximum protection measures.”

The foremost change that Bonet has damaged down is to scale back the thermal threshold from which larger safety measures are utilized. Now, the protocols foresee adjustments of schedules and extra breaks from the second through which, based on the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) the orange section is asserted. With the evaluation, these measures might be utilized in a yellow section (at the moment certified as low threat), which suggests that they enter into pressure when 34 levels are reached. “We will not wait at 37,” mentioned Bonet, who has highlighted the “good work” of corporations with protocols that “were already updating” earlier than the unstoppable rise, 12 months after 12 months, of temperatures.

Bonet has cited for instance that, when the 34 levels are reached, employees can take pleasure in a 5 -minute break every hour, throughout the “maximum failure” stripes. The new unified protocol may also be certain that an isothermal bottle of 1 liter is delivered to every employee, or that “the order of the route to pass through the most shadow areas in the most sun hours,” mentioned the deputy mayor. On pink alert, he added, the service on foot “will be suspended” within the central hours of the day. “We leave reinforced, with more tools,” he applauded.

Montse, the deceased girl, labored for 3 years for the FCC firm, the contract that carries the service within the outdated city. The protocol of this firm foresees, on orange alert, “to advance an hour” the start of the day to keep away from the central strip of the day, which was exactly through which the girl labored on Saturday, when temperatures exceeded 35 levels. He entered at 14.30 and, at one time within the afternoon, he instructed the supervisor that he was improper, based on the household. When he got here residence, within the neighborhood of the Poble SEC, the place he lived together with his mom, he despatched a WhatsApp message to a good friend explaining that, at work, he had felt with “cramps” and chest pains, arms and again. Shortly after, he collapsed and died on the spot.