The Castile and Leon branch of FCC Medio Ambiente held an open day on Saturday in the machinery depot in Huerta Otea, Salamanca. The event was attended by numerous employees from the waste collection and street cleansing contracts in Salamanca and Santa Marta, as well as from the waste treatment centre (WTC) in Gomecello and the packaging waste recycling plant. Throughout the day, children and relatives of this branch’s employees and authorities spent time learning about the facility and environmental awareness.

They got to know firsthand about the installations and the machinery in the depot, watching the collection trucks in action and learning about how some of the vehicles function. In the afternoon, the children enjoyed a karting circuit and the inflatables installed in the machinery depot area.

This activity came within the healthy company programme set up by this branch. The activities connected with this project are designed to facilitate and support healthy habits such as healthy food, physical exercise and care for health, aspects that fall within FCC Group’s policy and are aimed at improving the employment environment and the promotion of health.

The branch Director, Javier Rivas, showed his pride in carrying out the process to obtain the healthy company certificate in Castile and Leon for the waste collection and street cleansing services in the city of Salamanca. He thanked the workers for their commitment to this project, which has made FCC pioneers in the region.

During his talk to the attendees, Rivas stated that, “a healthy company is one in which workers and management are committed to the contents of the World Health Organisation’s model of healthy working environments, promoting and protecting the health, safety and well-being of workers and the sustainability of the working ambit, propitiating continuous improvement,” and emphasised that the certificate “is another step beyond legal compliance in matters of the prevention of occupational risks, creating a healthy working environment for all workers, preventing illnesses and ailments caused by work, which not only affect them but also their families and friends in the community to which they belong.”

As the day concluded, nine FCC retirees in Salamanca received plaques recognising their work from the company’s union representatives committee. FCC also joined the tribute and gave them commemorative watches with their date of joining the company and their name.