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The port authority of Gioia Tauro asks to subject the airport's operations staff to tampon checks
The goal is constant risk monitoring and health protection for workers
March 23, 2020
Emphasizing that, even with a reduction in productivity necessary to enable the adoption of measures to protect the environment. health of the workers, the port of Gioia Tauro is regularly operational and is the most important strategic and productive settlement of southern Italy, which guarantees the influx of those essential goods, above all, into a time of intense supply difficulties constantly and securely of basic necessities, in addressing In Belcastro, Commissioner Agostinelli pointed out that, despite the terminalist who carries out the operational activities at the port airport has adopted all the protection systems individual protocols under the control and control of government protocols the supervision of the Port Authority, the presence in the gate port number of necessarily large and contextual numbers of workers and recent epidemiological emergencies in the area local - not least the case of the coronavirus outbreak in the nearby Rosarno - require the adoption of further preventive measures to contain the contagion.
"In this sense," explained Agostinelli, "thanks to the Provincial Department of Prevention, but also, where necessary, scientific technical support that already exists on the ground of the USMAF Health Office, it would be necessary to start a buffer control system to be carried out inside the system. terminals and all operations personnel, perhaps using the first aid provided by this Authority. Such a solution, which would see the intervention of the staff already engaged within the port area and the use of the premises that have long been set up - noted Agostinelli - would allow constant monitoring of risk and expand health protections for workers and the entire area adjacent to the port."
Pointing out that, in the awareness of the emergency territory, this specific measure would represent a reduced expenditure, limited only to the provision of kit-tampon, but would ensure the maximum reduction in risk of detention for the main source of wealth Calabrian territory, Agostinelli concluded confirming that the port of Gioia Tauro "represents today a fully functioning operating mechanism, which, in the hope of a resolution of the pan-domic event, it is with certainty that the starting point of an economy plagued by an inevitable standstill and tearing up an already strongly suffering.'
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