The Swedish Work Environment Authority has prohibited the use of visors without CE marking or temporary permission from the Swedish Work Environment Authority. This was done after an inspection visit to a home care unit in the municipality. If the visor is used by the employees at the unit, the municipality would be forced to pay SEK 100,000. But according to the municipality of Norrköping, the Swedish Work Environment Authority had announced that employers did not risk sanction fees for protective equipment that lacked CE marking or a temporary permit.

- In addition, the Swedish Work Environment Authority granted the visor a temporary permit only the day after they decided to ban the unit from turning them over. The whole thing becomes unclear and contradictory, so now we choose to appeal the Swedish Work Environment Authority's decision, says operations manager Malin Engström in a press release.

Appeals the ban

According to the municipality, the home care unit has received other visors after the decision, but there should be no indication that the prohibited visors would not provide an appropriate ksydd.

- We have not received any reports or deviations that could indicate that the visors used are not safe. Visors without CE marking can meet the requirements and provide the same protection anyway, but have not undergone the time-consuming process of CE marking, says Malin Engström.

The municipality of Norrköping is now appealing the authority's ban.