Following the explosion that occurred on Friday, November 14, at the Carlos Spegazzini Industrial Park in the Ezeiza district, the Buenos Aires Provincial Chemical Professional Council said in a statement that it reaffirmed “the urgent need to regulate industrial chemical activities in the Province of Buenos Aires in accordance with the law and current safety and environmental protocols.”
Along these lines, the panel recalled that “accidents of this type occur in a naturalized manner in the state as a result of the generalized framework of ‘free action’ and the resulting lack of control and requirement for the performance of professional activities by registered and properly trained personnel.”
In this regard, Dr. Carlos Colangelo, President of the Chemical Professional Council, said: “Unfortunately, we are used to recording these types of events in our facilities and are tired of asking the competent authorities to carry out regular controls so that Industrial Ark complies with the legally mandated registration obligations of personnel and the mandatory requirements to ensure safe and high-quality process execution.”
Along these lines, Mr. Colangelo underlined the “indispensable role played by councils and universities in the supervision of professional activities,” and stressed that what happened in the Ezeiza Industrial Park is “a clear example among the many that prove that absolute deregulation is an irreversible path that leads to precarious work and services and suffers the unfortunate environmental, personal and infrastructural consequences that we have witnessed in recent hours.”
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