translated from Spanish: Government announces increased control of salmon industry after security report

The Minister of Labour, Nicolás Monckeberg, announced that int Ensificarán the control of the salmon industry, following a report that aimed at Chile as the country with the largest number of workers killed in the world.
More inspections both in plants and in cultivation centres the job holder to improve the number of 36 workers killed in the last 6 years of the report “Blood salmon in the south of the world”.
Monckeberg told Radio Biobío that he will sleep calmly when the accident rates of the industry fall, not only in the silver, but also the sea where “the hardest, most serious accidents occur”.
For his part, Gustavo Cortés, president of the Federation of Workers of the salmon industry, said he hopes that they will actually do the audits, because currently the government allows him what he wants to the salmon.
“I hope so, but we do not believe that today we see a government that allows everything to the salmon industry (…) The salmon company manages everything, it is able to manipulate everything, ‘ he said.
The ministry said that to date there have been serious deficiencies in the control, especially at sea, which is where the most serious accidents occur.
Another result of the report is that the Chilean salmon industry has the lowest wages worldwide, in contrast to the high mortality rate.

Original source in Spanish

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