The calls of experts multiply to make the mask mandatory for companies, which have been detected in numerous foci of contamination.
The new protocol déconfinement of the ministry of Labour will he require the wearing of the mask in a company ? It is on the right track. Friday and Tuesday, meetings are planned in the rue de Grenelle with union leaders and employers to adapt this protocol.
“The current protocol is outdated, it should definitely be renewed : it is based on the separation physical, it has no real meaning,” says Martin Blachier, public health physician, co-director of the consulting company Public Health Expertise.
The protocol requires the mask-wearing only when the distance of a meter is not respected. The employee must also wear it when it is brought to be in contact within one meter of a social group constituted freely to people who don’t wear a mask.
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According to this protocol, “the mask is a complement of gestures, barrier (…) Before you think about the port mask, the employer shall therefore implement all the technical solutions and organizational collective protection to avoid or reduce the risk”.
however, since a few days, while more and more cities impose the wearing of the mask to the outside — whose usefulness in the fight against the epidemic of Covid-19 there is no consensus on –, the medical profession considers that it is in a company that above all, it must be generalized.
“let’s Make the mask mandatory in all places ended”
“50% of clusters are in business, medical or non-medical. The hospitals, which is about 10% of the clusters, the medico-social establishments, the long-term care facilities, it is 20% and private enterprises 20%. Make the mask mandatory in all enclosed areas, including business, private!”, insisted Thursday on France Info Eric Caumes, head of the department of infectious diseases at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital in paris.
at this day, according to the regional Agency of health francilienne, 69, foci of infection are active in the Ile-de-France, 25% from professional backgrounds (private/public).
According to several sources, six cases have been Covid-19 have been detected and several have been placed in isolation among the employees of a store Fnac in paris, where the mask is mandatory since 11 may for all employees, providers and clients.
“Under psychological,”
Michaël Rochoy, a general practitioner in the Pas-de-Calais, member of the group, Stop talking to them, which is campaigning since march for a wider use of the mask, believes that “the coercive procedures of disinfection are exaggerated when one does not impose the mask”. “All other things come after.”
Among these other measures, the now traditional recommendations of hygiene (washing your hands regularly, systematically cover the nose and mouth during coughing or sneezing into one’s elbow, not a hand shake …).
It also requires, among other things, to air regularly (every 3 hours) the parts closed for 15 minutes ; clean it regularly with a product that is active against the viruses the objects and surfaces, dispose of waste likely to be contaminated in garbage cans to opening non-manual, stay at home in case of symptoms (cough, difficulty breathing, etc).
Interviewed Thursday on the wearing of the mask mandatory in companies, trade union officials, were rather favourable. “Everything depends on the quality of the masks, of renewal and of the control, which poses a bunch of questions on management, the sanctions”, leading Claude Quinquis, of the CGT to the Post office.
To Samuel Berthelot (Unsa at the Post office), if “the port of the mask is rather well perceived,” “The Post does not go far enough, accepting that people begin to sign on paper (recommended) with the same pen that get passed from hand to hand”.
At Orange, Sébastien Crozier (CFE-CGC) considers that “even if this is not the most effective measure, and that we may wonder again about his ability to protect actually, it has a under psychological certain : this is a permanent reminder to be vigilant”.
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on Wednesday, the Confederation of small and medium-sized businesses opposed to a generalization, considering that the impose “systematic” would be “excessive”.
