SANITIZATION of studios, shops, premises and companies for COVID-19
May 8, 2020Acoustics of closed spaces
May 14, 2020
It is an extremely complex moment and the risk of hastily assigning tasks to "improvised" or unauthorized people is very high indeed.
In order to provide a useful contribution, a short summary is attached and a subsequent reference to the link of a Puntosicuro article, certain of doing something useful and appreciated by readers.
“In this particular period of application of specific anti-contagion protocols within companies for the fight against coronavirus, it may be necessary to entrust emergency services cleaning and sanitation within the workplace to external companies for which the Employer must carry out, under contract, the necessary technical and professional suitability checks pursuant to art. 26 of Legislative Decree 81/08. With this contribution, we intend to illustrate which technical-professional characteristics must be possessed by companies that carry out cleaning and sanitization services based on the relevant legislation and which elements we believe should be looked for when reading the certificate of registration with the chamber of commerce requested by the Client Employer, to the same companies, in application of art.26 paragraph 1 letter a) point 1) of the aforementioned Legislative Decree 81/08.
Regarding the requirements that cleaning companies must possess, we must take into account that "the Bible" on the regulation on the subject is the DM 7 July 1997, n. 274 (briefly followed by Ministerial Decree 274/97), regulation implementing articles 1 and 4 of the Law 25 January 1994, n.82, whose title is “regulation of the activities of cleaning, disinfection, disinfestation, rodent control and sanitization".
First of all, this rule provides in art. 1 the definitions of what is meant by cleaning, disinfection, disinfestation, rodent control and sanitization, an aspect which is often confused, therefore it is considered useful to report the excerpt from the rule:
| Art. 1. Definitions. 1. For the purposes of law 25 January 1994, n. 82, cleaning, disinfection, disinfestation, rodent control and sanitization activities are defined as follows: a) they are cleaning activities those which concern the complex of procedures and operations aimed at removing dust, unwanted material or dirt from surfaces, objects, confined spaces and relevant areas; b) they are disinfection activities those which concern the complex of procedures and operations aimed at making certain confined environments and relevant areas healthy through the destruction or inactivation of pathogenic microorganisms; c) they are disinfestation activities those which concern the complex of procedures and operations aimed at destroying small animals, in particular arthropods, either because they are parasites, vectors or reserves of infectious agents or because they are nuisances and unwanted plant species. Disinfestation can be comprehensive if aimed at all infesting species or targeted if aimed at a single species; d) they are rodent control activities those which concern the complex of disinfestation procedures and operations aimed at determining either the complete destruction or the reduction of the number of the rat or mouse population below a certain threshold; e) they are sanitization activities those which concern the complex of procedures and operations aimed at making certain environments healthy through cleaning and/or disinfection and/or disinfestation activities or through the control and improvement of the microclimate conditions with regards to temperature, humidity and ventilation or regarding lighting and noise. |
These companies are required to submit certified notification of start of activity pursuant to art. 19 of the law. 241/90 to the Business Registry Office or to the Register of Artisan Businesses of their territory, in order to carry out entrepreneurial activity in this sector, and as we will see, they will have to demonstrate various requirements not only reputational, moral and economic, but also technical-professional.
Any further information at the link https://www.puntosicuro.it/sicurezza-sul-lavoro-C-1/tipologie-di-rischio-C-5/luoghi-di-lavoro-C-48/i-requisiti-delle-imprese-di-pulizie-sanificazioni-AR-20036/
