Sunafil: What types of insurance and equipment should faucet workers receive?

People who work in a faucet must take into account that their employers have to grant them a mandatory Life Insurance Law, in addition to social health insurance, which is a right of workers who are on the payroll, reported the National Control Superintendence Labor (Sunafil).

In addition, he added that, in case they carry out a risky activity, they must have a Complementary Insurance for Work at Risk (SCTR).

“The employer is the one who has the obligation to guarantee the safety and health of its workers in the performance of their duties, therefore it must identify and eliminate the dangers and risks related to work, in addition to determining the necessary controls, so that the work is carried out develop in a safe environment”, emphasized the entity.

He indicated that it must also provide training and information to its workers in order to promote adequate prevention of occupational risks, must install signs in the same workplace, establish firefighting, evacuation and rescue procedures, as well as provide -according to the workstation – the personal protective equipment necessary for them to perform their duties safely; attending to a hierarchy in the prevention and protection measures that are going to be adopted.

Personal protective equipment is:

• Security shoes
• Gloves
• Protective masks with filters for organic vapors
• anti impact lenses
• Fire retardant full body coverall (protects against fire) with reflective tapes.
• Others, according to occupational risks.

Finally, it should be considered that in case an accident happens to the workers, in the performance of their duties, it is the employer who must assume the economic and legal implications.