An unscheduled safety briefing will be held for agricultural workers in the Vitebsk region

May 20, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. An unscheduled safety briefing will be held for agricultural workers in the Vitebsk region. This was announced today by Leonid Pleshko, Chairman of the Committee for Agriculture and Food of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, during a regional training seminar on improving the efficiency of fodder production. Participants in the regional training seminar on improving fodder production include district chairmen, their deputies for agriculture, heads and chief specialists of agricultural enterprises, and scientists. The event will bring together about 400 people. According to Leonid Pleshko, a busy period is starting for agricultural workers, associated with fodder harvesting and other field work. It is very important during this period to avoid accidents related to fatalities and injuries. To this end, an unscheduled safety briefing will be held for all agricultural workers. Special responsibility is placed on managers, who are obliged to prevent people who have not undergone special training for a particular job from working, as well as to immediately remove individuals who are at the workplace while intoxicated. In addition, medical examinations will be organized to prevent drunkenness, and other measures will be taken to ensure discipline, Leonid Pleshko added. In total, in January-April, there were two fatalities and seven people were seriously injured in the region's agricultural sector, according to the Vitebsk Regional Department of the State Labor Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Belarus. -0-