Alarm BBVA in the template: the headquarters asbestos causes cancer Bilbao

The Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health confirmed that a worker’s illness is related to the mineral

Angel Guzman .- C. R. M., an electrician who worked at the headquarters of BBVA Bilbao from 1968 to 2002, suffers from cancer of the pleura. The CCOO union thinks that the disease is professional, since it is based on contact with asbestos in their workplace. Following the withdrawal of the union and the confirmation of the Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that this cancer may be due to contact with dangerous material (very common in buildings of that period), the Labour Inspectorate of Biscay has forced the bank to chairman Francisco Gonzalez to deliver documentation of occupational risk assessments from 1995 to 2000 and all the information you have about a history of asbestos-related diseases of other workers in the group.

The Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has ordered the BBVA who performs a comprehensive monitoring on the health of workers in the workplace (the largest group that has the Bilbao) because of the finding of the presence of asbestos in that building.

Jesus Uzkudun responsible for Occupational Health CCOO Euskadi, raised the complaint with the Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and to the Labour Inspectorate of Biscay to clarify the origin of the cancer professional electrician. But most alarming is that it rains in the wet. Because the Labour Inspectorate, which investigates the complaint for alleged occupational disease CCOO by exposure to asbestos from the electrician who worked in that building no less than 34 years, acknowledged in a report issued in March 2006, following a complaint from a steward in the subcontract ELA Giro (one in charge of maintenance), the presence of asbestos at the headquarters of Gran Via Building, of course, that has protection planning as an unusual building.

In the same report claimed that BBVA asbestos removal work began building the company through Conten Cespa SA. But Angel Carcoba, an expert on asbestos CCOO, nationalist newspaper Gara said that the process of removal in the headquarters of BBVA Bilbao “was held with employees and customers inside” and that the level of asbestos fibers into the environment “was as permitted above.