Labor Inspectorate detects more than 1,000 violations for breaching the law on prevention of occupational risks

Between January and July around 10,000 visits were made to construction companies and fines were proposed for more than 3.7 million euros.


The Labor Inspection and the skilled technicians of the Department of Labor and Industry of the Generalitat de Catalunya have opened a total of 1,098 sanctioning files from companies in the construction sector for non-compliance with the Occupational Risk Prevention Law from January to July. These acts entail fines amounting to € 3.7 million.

As a result of the visits, more than nine thousand requirements for safety and health deficiencies have been made. Even, the Labor Inspection has paralyzed a total of 78 works throughout Catalonia for serious and imminent risk.

Regarding the accidents, by demarcations, in the construction sector, Barcelona and Lleida have evolved positively in recent years while Girona accidents has fallen, despite registering a strong increase in mortality accidents this year. In our province, the incidence rate (number of accidents at work for every 100,000 workers) has continued to decline despite the increase in the number of accidents in absolute numbers that the Generalitat attributes, among other things, Increase in workers employed in the sector.

Among the next administrative actions, there is an agreement that the Government will adopt that will make public works adjudications commit to respect certain health and safety measures. Thus, the quality of the contents of health and safety studies in the construction projects will be monitored. In addition, it will be necessary to indicate what parts are intended to outsource and to which companies. Finally, the Catalan administration may not award public works to companies with a sanction or firm conviction for very serious infringements of the Law on Occupational Risk Prevention.