National Occupational Safety and Health Day begins .

With the aim of raising awareness about the importance of safe, healthy and dignified work, the National Day of Safety and Health at Work began in Matanzas, which will run from November 1st to 30th.

With the aim of raising awareness about the importance of safe, healthy and dignified work, the National Day of Safety and Health at Work began in Matanzas, which will run from November 1st to 30th.

At the Training Center of the Construction and Assembly Company of Matanzas took place the provincial act of beginning of the period, including activities to promote good practices in work environments on the basis of offering safety to employees in production and service entities.

Jesús Camacho Medina, president of the Provincial Commission of Safety and Health at Work, announced the realization of visits to work centers, workshops and training courses, aimed at dealing with risks and the way to act in each circumstance.

Camacho explained that this is a month in which emphasis will be placed on increasing knowledge and protocols, essential for a province such as this one which has already suffered multiple accidents such as the one at the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant in April 2023, and others in the industrial zone.

The event in Matanzas took place at the Construction and Assembly Company. Photo: Taken from Edel Cruz’s Facebook account.

Pioneers invited to the opening ceremony of the day to evoke the urgency of using the means of protection. Photo: Taken from Edel cruz Facebook account.

Compliance with the precepts of Safety and Health at Work is a priority issue in the organic process towards the 22nd Congress of the Cuba Trade Union (CTC), whose final sessions will be held in April next year.

Vladimir Gonzalez, member of the Secretariat of the Provincial Committee of the CTC, called on grassroots union leaders to demand compliance with the budgets for the purchase of means of protection, especially in non-state actors, in some of which there have already been deaths.

Written by Eva Luna Acosta Armiñán.