Ministry of Employment
No - neither a company's own employees nor cleaning companies may use them under any circumstances. Insecticides for household use are designed for application by people strictly within the domestic sphere and under the responsibility of the people concerned. In the workplace, however, any pest-control measures must only involve the use of products registered for ambient use, such products being used by a suitably trained person, i.e. a person holding the DDD application licence.
What are Health and Safety Committees?
Health and Safety Committees are joint committees involving employers and employees engaged in regular consultation on the action taken by companies to prevent occupational risks.
A Safety and Health Committee must be set up in all companies and work centres with 50 employees or more, with the Committee comprising delegates representing employees, and the employer or its representatives.
Who are Occupational Risk Prevention Delegates?
Occupational risk prevention delegates are workers' representatives holding specific functions in connection with occupational risks. The number of delegates in a company depends on the number of employees the company has. When they are appointed, they must be registered in the Register for Occupational Risk Prevention Delegates kept at the Territorial Services of the Employment Department.
What is the procedure for submitting a Notice of Building Work?
Notices announcing building work must be submitted to the relevant labour authority. In the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, the notices are to be submitted to the Employment Department's Territorial Service for the region where the workplace affected by the Notice is located. Further information can be obtained from the services and procedures files provided by the Citizens' Information Service (SAC).
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Occupational Risk Prevention
No - neither a company's own employees nor cleaning companies may use them under any circumstances. Insecticides for household use are designed for application by people strictly within the domestic sphere and under the responsibility of the people concerned. In the workplace, however, any pest-control measures must only involve the use of products registered for ambient use, such products being used by a suitably trained person, i.e. a person holding the DDD application licence.
What are Health and Safety Committees?
Health and Safety Committees are joint committees involving employers and employees engaged in regular consultation on the action taken by companies to prevent occupational risks.
A Safety and Health Committee must be set up in all companies and work centres with 50 employees or more, with the Committee comprising delegates representing employees, and the employer or its representatives.
Who are Occupational Risk Prevention Delegates?
Occupational risk prevention delegates are workers' representatives holding specific functions in connection with occupational risks. The number of delegates in a company depends on the number of employees the company has. When they are appointed, they must be registered in the Register for Occupational Risk Prevention Delegates kept at the Territorial Services of the Employment Department.
What is the procedure for submitting a Notice of Building Work?
Notices announcing building work must be submitted to the relevant labour authority. In the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, the notices are to be submitted to the Employment Department's Territorial Service for the region where the workplace affected by the Notice is located. Further information can be obtained from the services and procedures files provided by the Citizens' Information Service (SAC).
The functions involved in Occupational Risk Prevention may be performed by private entities, or by natural or legal persons. If a natural person (an individual) is to exercise those functions, then under article 4.2 of the Ministerial Order of 27 June 1997 he or she must be a senior-level expert in any of the four disciplines associated with risk prevention (occupational medicine, safety in the workplace, industrial hygiene, and ergonomics and applied psycho-sociology), and must also have training or proven experience in administering and implementing audits, and in auditing techniques. (Regulations: articles 32 and 33 of Royal Decree 39/1997 of 17 January approving the Regulations for Prevention Services; article 4 of the Ministerial Order of 27 June 1997).
Under article 32.3 of Royal Decree 39/1997, entities accredited for carrying out prevention audits cannot offer the same company, or other companies, activities as a specialist company for acting as a prevention service, or maintain with those companies commercial, financial or other links other than the links agreed by the auditor as a company for undertaking prevention activities.
(Regulations: article 32.3 of Royal Decree 39/1997 of 17 January approving the Regulations for Risk Prevention Services).
