Covid-safe practices in laundry and funeral services jobs

The National Institute for Safety and Health at Work (INSST) continues to present these days the documents titled Good practice guidelines to prevent the risk of occupational exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by activities/sectors.

These are documents that contain guidelines by specific sectors of activity to apply the measures established by the Ministry of Health against the risk of exposure to the virus in the work environment y recommend a non-exhaustive selection of measures, which must be implemented and, where appropriate, complemented by companies based on their characteristics and the results obtained in their performance evaluations. risk.

The last two new items we found are the document Guidelines for good practices in the funeral services sector and in the industrial laundry sector.

In relation to the funeral services sector, the evolution of the Covid epidemic in Spain has led to a huge increase in deaths from this disease, which joins those who died from other causes. This circumstance requires the adoption of extraordinary measures to prevent the spread, as well as measures to guarantee the protection of funeral service workers, both in the correct handling of corpses, and in relation to wakes or the celebration of civil and religious ceremonies linked to funerals. The document includes a non-exhaustive selection of recommendations and appropriate containment measures to guarantee the protection of workers' health against exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in this type of activities.

For its part, the document for the industrial laundry sector includes a non-exhaustive selection of recommendations and appropriate containment measures to guarantee the protection of the health of workers against exposure to coronavirus in the cleaning sector, specifically industrial laundries, when their activities are aimed at cleaning clothing from hospitals or nursing homes. mainly.

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