📋 Tender Overview
The National Superintendency of Labor Inspection- SUNAFIL through its regional municipalities began sending letters of a guiding nature to 51732 previously identified companies in order to guide them step by step in the prompt implementation of their committee or supervisor of Occupational Health and Safety OSH as appropriate.Of these letters 7 thousand 483 have been sent to companies that have 20 or more workers in their charge and that do not register in their electronic spreadsheet the constitution of an OSH committee or failing that they declare to have an OSH supervisor.On the other hand 44249 guidance letters are sent to companies with less than 20 workers and that do not declare that they have an OSH supervisor.Compliance with this obligation which is more urgent in the fight against COVID-19 is associated with the duty of companies to adopt measures to protect the life and health of workers.The letter details the main guidelines to be taken into account for the constitution of the OSH committee which is required of companies that have 20 or more workers in their charge and which must be made up equally by the same number of representatives. of the employing party and the working party.Similarly another document addressed to companies with less than 20 workers provides the guidelines for the election of the supervisor who must be democratically chosen by the workers.It should be noted that failure to comply with these obligations is a serious infraction in terms of safety and health at work.
