In the last hours the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (sic) He ordered the immediate closure of the Beach Life Party Hostel and Casa Ibiza By Beach Life Palomino hotels in the municipality of Palomino (La Guajira)as well as urgent corrective measures in the hotels: Hotel Decameron Los Delfines, Hotel Las Américas and Hotel Portobello Convention Center; as well as the entity ordered a partial closure (from the kitchen area) at the Tone Blue hotel in San Andrés (San Andrés and Providencia).
According to the entity, In these establishments critical risks were found in electrical facilitiesof lighting and fuel gas, which threaten the life, health and safety of both guests, and visitors.
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The sic control measures intensified in the tourism sector in areas of high influx of visitors. Likewise, the agency pointed out, through an official statement that the advanced actions were given as a consequence of the inspection visits developed on the occasion of the tragedy recently occurred in San Andrés, in which a complete family (a couple and their daughter) lost his life.
The total closing measure in Palomino was given to the Villa Delia Palomino Beach Sas company, which owns the hotels, after verifying the presence of electrical conductors exposed to physical damage, deficiencies in distribution boards and Lack of safety lighting on evacuation routes and emergency exitsamong other serious irregularities, in contravention of the provisions of the technical regulations Retie and Reilap, After knowing that a pet had lost his life there.
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In the case of hotels in San Andrés and Providencia, during sic inspection visits, critical defects were detected in internal gas facilities, such as absence of adequate ventilation in certain spaces with the presence of carbon monoxide, Safety metallic plugs, union unions without anticorrosive protection, LPG tanks without anchor and lack of preventive notices required by the standard. These conditions significantly increase the risk of explosion, leaks or poisoning of people and animals.
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Given this, the SIC ordered the Servincuidos Ltda.
establishments inspected in San Andrés, which Execute urgent actions to adjust their internal gas facilities to the demands of the applicable technical regulations.
The Superintendency stressed that electrical, lighting and fuel gas facilities involve inherent risks and insisted that the strict compliance with technical regulations is essential To prevent accidents, protect life, health and guarantee the safety of people and animalsespecially in strategic tourist destinations in the country.
Thus, the control entity reported that who fail to comply with these orders givenmay lead to the imposition of fines of up to two thousand (2,000) current legal minimum wages, as dictated in article 61 of Law 1480 of 2011.
Valentina Delgadillo Abello
Portfolio journalist
