28 April is World Safety and Health Day at Work.
The Territorial Committee of the Trade Union of Moscow Metrostroy Workers pays great attention to the labor safety of workers and maintaining the necessary sanitary and living conditions at work.
On April 19, an extended joint meeting was held in the assembly hall of Mosmetrostroy JSC on the issue of labor protection, industrial and environmental safety in 2017 and the tasks of eliminating the causes of injuries at work in 2018 year.
The meeting was opened by the chief engineer of Mosmetrostroy JSC, Vladimir Ivanovich Lapshin, presenting the results of the work of all Metrostroy contractors. In general, based on the results of the past year, all organizations showed quite good results. As a positive aspect, a decrease in the number of minor accidents was noted, but the number of severe and fatal accidents remained at an average level, and the number of fires on construction sites increased.
On the part of the regulatory authorities, representatives of the State Construction Supervision Committee of the city of Moscow, Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Kuzin and Igor Mikhailovich Voystratenko, were present and made a report.
On behalf of the Terkom of the trade union of Mosmetrostroy workers, the chief labor inspector Igor Nikolaevich Panchev addressed the audience.
At the beginning of the report, he cited statistics on the death of workers at production. I focused on the work of labor safety representatives in departments and workplaces. He emphasized that, as a matter of priority, it is necessary to ensure normal sanitary and living conditions for workers during the entire construction period. He recalled the need to organize hot meals at construction sites, to introduce the payment of one-time monetary compensation in excess of that provided for by federal legislation in the event of a work injury received by an employee from an industrial accident or occupational disease, the amount of which is determined in accordance with the degree of loss of professional ability to work. He also reminded those present about the need to repair and wash special clothing. He expressed the need to pay additional compensation to persons working more than 8 hours a day and more than 40 hours a week.
During the meeting, an important decision was made for the Terkom of the trade union of workers of Mosmetrostroy and JSC "Mosmetrostroy" to hold a qualifying stage and participate in the final stage of the review-competition "Moscow Masters" among labor protection specialists.