The Local Police of Totana has joined the special campaign of the DGT APRA avoid fatalities that occur in the workplace, both in commuting from home to work and from work to home or on the road that made within the workday.
This is the main objective of the new special occupational road safety campaign that runs from today until next Friday, October 28, driven by a significant increase in fatal accidents in business travel.
According to provisional data provided by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, between January and August 2016 nine accidents of this kind, in which the DGT recorded the death of 15 people, 37.5% of all registered fatalities due to traffic accidents, while in 2015 all six deaths were reported, 18.18% of the total.
For this reason, the agents of the Civil Guard Traffic and local police in those municipalities that join the campaign will pay special attention to vehicles transporting goods and passengers, with inspections on vehicles (authorizations and documents, technical, safety features, etc.), and drivers, checking driving license, driving times and rest by controlling the consumption of alcohol and drugs.
accident that job that causes any bodily injury suffered by a worker during or as a result of work executed by others is considered, and will be considered an accident of that work suffered by the worker while going to or returning from home to Workplace.
Labor traffic accident is one who suffers a worker during their workday or the way back home follow routes and work, and always involving a vehicle in circulation.
This definition can draw two types of accidents labor trafficking, 'commuting', when it occurs in the path of the employee's residence to the workplace;
and 'in-mission', which occur in the journeys that the worker to fulfill their tasks within the day.
In the Region of Murcia, from 1 January to 31 August 2016, the 88.88% of fatal traffic accidents labor, are 'commuting'.
