2015 DARK YEAR FOR SAFETY IN EUROPEAN
PORTS
If every accident at work is one too
much and every death at the workplace is unacceptable, 2015 is a particularly
dark year for safety in the docks.
In 2015 European Dockworkers, their families
and their unions have mourned colleagues, relatives and comrades who lost their
life while working in the ports of
Antwerp, Bilbao, Bremerhaven, Helsinki, Oxelösund, Sines, Valencia, just to
mention those accidents that have been publicly reported.
"Although
these accidents have occurred in different circumstances and according to
different dynamics, we are experiencing growing pressure on dockworkers, who
are demanded to be more and more productive.
Time pressure plays a significant role in safety because there is a tendency to
overlook procedures that would allow preventing a certain number of accidents",
said ETF Dockers’ Section Chair Terje
Samuelsen.
"Investigations
are still ongoing on most of these accidents and we will have to wait for the
final results to make an assessment of the causes and take measures to avoid
that similar accidents occur again. However, we believe there is a safety
emergency that must be tackled. Beside
expressing our deepest condolences to the families we are expected to act,
together with employers, port authorities and all involved actors", he
concluded.
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