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Brussels – The EU Parliament goes to assessment how the variety of provider chains in sectors akin to development may be restricted.
The report from the Parliament’s employment committee will probably be made following a Swedish initiative, as a consequence of a severe elevator accident at a development web site final yr the place 5 development employees died.
Afterwards, it was revealed that 119 corporations had been working on the web site, in 5 totally different chains.
The development elevator fell 20 meters on a web site in Sundbyberg north of Stockholm on December 11, 2023. A Swedish state accident investigation revealed that components, so-called screw joints, had been lacking on the elevator for no less than a month earlier than the accident. On the time of the accident, it had been used as much as 20 meters peak with “various masses” for nearly every week.
The conclusion is that the “management measures that will catch meeting errors weren’t utilized and subsequently it was not detected that the screw joints had been lacking”.
“The elevator accident in Sundbyberg factors out the issue. There’s a have to restrict lengthy subcontractor chains and for me, it’s clear that Europe should restrict it to a most of two chains,” mentioned EU parliament member and Social Democrat Johan Danielsson in a press release following the choice on the assessment in Parliament earlier in December.
(20 December)
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