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The company says it has also asked employees to assess whether the available security measures are sufficient and to provide ideas on how security procedures and work processes can be improved from their perspective.
“We have asked our employees before, but we still believe that the painful disaster has forced us all to look, react and behave differently in workplace safety. I assure you that all the ideas that we have already received, that we will still receive, they will be considered and evaluated ”, Marius Švaikauskas, General Director of Vilniaus Vandenai quotes in the report.
“Although occupational safety has been a priority area in our company to which we have dedicated both our time and our investment, we are now raising the bill on occupational safety much more: we will strive to make occupational safety so natural and unquestionable for every one of our daily routines. part, “says M. Švaikauskas.
Vilniaus Vandenai’s report states that over the past five years, nearly € 1 million has been allocated to ensure employee safety, this year it is planned to allocate more than € 160,000. euros
According to the report, these funds were used to purchase safety equipment, special clothing, invest in employee training, and solve infrastructure problems designed during the Soviet era. The company states that employees have received regular training and instruction in occupational safety, so far at least 100,000 people have been assigned for mandatory training in occupational safety, safety briefings and exercises so far. hours of work per year.
“If we allocate the investment and hours of safety training to employees who must take safety measures in their daily work and are exposed to high risks at work, it would mean that so far we have spent almost 600 euros a year on safety in the working, listening to knowledge spent more than 250 hours during training and exercises. This is the whole month of work, working without days off, “says M.Švaikauskas.
On 21 July, three employees of the Vilniaus Vandenys company were killed during the planned repair work on the water supply networks in the village of Tuščiauliai, Vilnius district. According to preliminary data, during the planned installation of the pipeline, an employee was poisoned and lost consciousness in the well, two of his colleagues went down to the well to rescue the man, and were also poisoned by gas accumulated in the pipeline.
The rescuers who arrived pulled the men to a depth of about four meters, tried to resuscitate them, but were unable to save lives. Workers aged 51, 53 and 65 were killed.
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