Legislative interventions in the context of protecting workers’ health and safety are being processed by the Ministry of Labor, according to Deputy Minister of Labor Costas Karagounis, responding earlier today to the Parliament In a timely question of his Member of Parliament KKE Manolis Sydchakis for the death of a hotel employees, while working time, at a large hotel in Crete.
«This death comes after three other deaths of the deceased’s colleagues from the beginning of the season, which proves that the famous tourist miracle and records are built in extermination conditions in the sector’s sector.“The KKE MP said and denounced intensification and unhealthy working conditions. He pointed out that the 64 -year -old employee, who lost his life, would have already retired if he had not abolished the heavy and unhealthy stamps.
The competent Department of Inspection of Security and Health was directly involved and the investigation of the case is ongoing, the Deputy Minister of Labor said, and informed that the unfortunate cook, who died of pathological causes, had hours on the day of the incident from seven in the morning.
Mr Karagounis said that intensive controls would continue to comply with the legislation, especially in the hotel sector, and informed that the Ministry was taking the initiative to make the Legislative intervention to learn the CPR and Haimlich Handle.
«We come to make substantial changes to enhance the health and safety of workers who are the most important right of workers to protect. The frame remains the same, forty years now“, The Deputy Minister of Labor noted that Greece is under the average European average in fatal work accidents, according to official figures by the Commission. But as he underlined, ‘KWe have a lethal to have, we must not only motivate us, but take very specific measures».
Prevention culture must pass both to the employer and the employee, the deputy minister said and informed that there would be very specific interventions, and in the field of technical projects and the role of the security coordinator and security techniques would be enhanced.
Interventions will also be made for the Labor Inspectorate to cover overnight costs on the islands, and, as Mr Karagounis said, the book of Labor and the Security Officer will be digitized so that it can be checked by the Labor Inspectorate and to find where there is a problem.