Seasonal workers attend one information meeting after another

Tourists may not yet be hitting the island's roads, but hotel, restaurant and other staff are already hard at work. For new arrivals and regulars alike, hotels have responded to requests from the Agence territoriale de l'environnement, the Service territorial d'incendie et de secours, the gendarmerie and the Chambre économique multiprofessionnelle to offer information and awareness-raising sessions to their employees.
For example, ATE communications manager Emma Tinelli has been holding one presentation meeting after another since Monday. She began at Le Barthélemy, with thirty-minute sessions and an audience of twenty seasonal workers each time. She will continue at the Sereno, Cheval Blanc, Christopher and Gypsea Hotels. The aim is to raise employee awareness of the island's environmental challenges. It is to be hoped that these concepts will quickly be taken on board. Just like those presented to them in parallel by the gendarmerie. The focus is on road safety (the memory of the death of a 23-year-old seasonal worker on the Grand Fond road at the end of last season is still fresh in everyone's minds).is still fresh in everyone's mind), but also the risks associated with drug-taking and excessive alcohol consumption. In short, these are the main causes of road accidents on Saint-Barth.
Stis also provides information sessions.
The aim of all these meetings is, of course, to prevent any behavior that could prove dangerous. Not only for employees, but also for local residents and tourists. Even if the latter don't attend awareness-raising sessions on arrival. But this would not be pointless. For example, on road traffic and how to behave on protected natural sites.
Other organizations, such as the Coral Restoration association, also take part in information sessions.