O resarcimento da asbestose a través da indemnización de danos e prexuízos

Abstract

[Resumo] A asbestose é unha enfermidade profesional relacionada co emprego do amianto en diversas tarefas laborais. Aínda que o seu uso foi prohibido a principios dos oitenta, as consecuencias da súa inhalación prolongada por parte de traballadores que carecían das medidas de seguridade axeitadas son moi importantes, mais aínda se cabe en Ferrolterra, pois o uso do devandito material na construción naval foi durante moitos anos habitual. En particular, neste artigo abórdase unha das posibilidades con que contan os traballadores afectados pola asbestose (ou os seus familiares) para se resarciren –na medida do posible– dos danos e prexuízos que sufriron, así como unha eventual exclusión da responsabilidade das empresas.

[Abstract] Asbestosis is an occupational disease that is derived from the use of asbestos in several worktasks. Although its use was banned in the early 1980s, the consequences of their inhalation formany years by workers, who did not have appropriate security measures, are very important. Its relevance is even higher in Ferrolterra, because for many years the use of such material in the shipbuilding industry was common. In particular, this article addresses one of the possibilities that workers who have been ill due to asbestosis (or their relatives) have of compensation –to a certain extent– for the damages and losses suffered; as well as a possible exclusion of corporate responsibility.