Out-Law Analysis 1 min. read
27 May 2020, 11:24 am
However, contractors must develop prevention measures against the spread of Covid-19, including measures to prevent the spread of disease between workers during their working hours.
Contractors must prepare a specific plan for each site. The plan should include prevention measures applicable to subcontractors and any other individual involved in the project.
Eduardo Serrano
Associate
Contractors must prepare a specific plan for each site. The plan should include prevention measures applicable to subcontractors and any other individual involved in the project.
The current regulations do not stipulate any mandatory content for these plans. However, the Spanish government has produced several guidelines which have been followed by most of the market players to date.
According to the guidelines, the plan should cover:
Contractors must provide a copy of the plan to each person involved at the site and notify them of its contents, if possible before starting the works. The project manager must supervise the implementation of the measures contained in the plan.
Contractors must also install information notices throughout the site setting out recommended Covid-19 preventative measures.
Finally, contractors must try to minimise contact between workers, prioritising individual works, reducing activity and modifying schedules where necessary. Other recommended measures include the provision of phased work shifts (turnos de trabajo escalonados) or establishing a ‘continuous working day’ or compressed hours (jornada de trabajo contínua).
Co-written by Eduardo Serrano of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.