The City Council of Totana has urged the Ministry of Education, in compliance with Royal Decree 486/1997, of April 14, to condition all educational centers supported by public funds with the necessary means to ensure optimal temperatures in workplaces for Avoid thermal stress and map temperatures in schools.
The Municipal Corporation and approved a few months ago, unanimously, an initiative to ensure that the centers have an adequate system of air conditioning to allow the development of educational activities in conditions of safety and health for students and teachers.
Public Administrations within the scope of their powers are required to take the necessary measures to ensure minimum safety and health conditions in workplaces.
In this sense, this Royal Decree establishes minimum safety and health requirements in workplaces, regulating that the optimal temperatures in workplaces that set the temperature in the premises where sedentary work is performed will be between 17 and 27 degrees .
In the Region of Murcia, the educational community has denounced that, even today, there is a high number of educational centers that do not have optimal climatic conditions, and more in a heat zone like this one and at a time of the year, As is the beginning and end of the course, that temperatures exceed these parameters inside the classroom.
In addition, there are numerous complaints from union representatives to the Health and Safety Committee of the Ministry of Education and Universities, in order to solve the episodes that year after year students, teachers and administration staff have to suffer in the centers due to the temperatures Environmental conditions they support.
The agreement made by the Consistory totanero to the Ministry indicated that this is not a baladí issue, as shown by various studies, because the ambient temperature directly affects the performance in both students and teaching workers, being incompatible with a system Quality public.
Temperatures below 17 and above 27 degrees translate into restlessness, nervousness due to cold and drowsiness and inactivity when it affects the heat.
