With the establishment of the Centros Portuarios de Empleo, in the three
main Spanish ports of Valencia, Algeciras and Barcelona on
The rate of accidents involving port workers has decreased
by 36% in the last four years. He emphasized this today
the association of Spanish port terminal operators ANESCO
highlighting that this is a significant improvement over the
2021 when was this activity of
monitoring of accidents at work.
The Centros Portuarios de Empleo (CPE) are companies
mutualistic societies, voluntarily established by port companies, which
are provided for by the new Spanish rules introduced to allow
the temporary transfer of port workers to companies
holders of authorisation to provide temporary labour in the
ports and which have been included in national legislation in response to
to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union which had
declared the Spanish system for the management of the transfer of
port workers incompatible with the freedom of
Establishment in the domestic market
(
of the 12th
December 2014).
ANESCO specified that in the four years the absences due to
illness decreased by 26.27% and other accidents decreased
by 47.77%, and at the same time the
the frequency, severity and duration of injuries.
The association also said that it was registered
also a significant decrease, up to 50%, in the rate of
absenteeism related to accidents at work and illness,
with a 67% decrease in lost working days per year.
ANESCO remarked that "these positive data on the
incidents demonstrate the commitment and efforts of the departments
of Prevention and Safety at Work of the Employment Centers
Valencia, Algeciras and Barcelona together with ANESCO,
actions carried out with the aim of increasing safety on the
work and awareness raising on this issue through, for example,
awareness campaigns on the use of protective equipment
individual".
Currently, in addition to the Centros Portuarios de Empleo in the ports of
Algeciras, Barcelona and Valencia, two associated CPEs are in operation
at ANESCO in the ports of Palma de Mallorca and Melilla.
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