Cuba fosters good practices in refrigeration and air conditioning

CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, Oct 7 (ACN) The training to more than 5,000 workers in the state and non-state sectors in the country, linked to refrigeration and air conditioning activities, represents a guarantee for the fulfillment of the responsibilities of Cuba as a signatory of the Montreal Protocol and the Kigali Amendment, global regulations aimed at preserving the ozone layer.

Engineer Armando Lazaro Gomez Diaz, specialist Ozone Technical Office (Otoz), stressed that the training is conducted in 17 classroom-laboratories of good practices in refrigeration and air conditioning enabled in polytechnic institutes (IP) of all Cuban provinces, where courses related to these tasks, such as the Middle Technician in Mechanics Refrigeration Installations.

Teachers from these technical-professional education centers, previously prepared by Otoz, teach classes on global provisions for the management of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), international trends in the use of refrigerants and technologies, aspects related to energy efficiency, properties and use of ODS and hydrocarbons.

Trainees also appropriate knowledge related to welding, safety standards inherent in these functions and reconversions of domestic refrigeration and air conditioning equipment.

The courses of good practices are a prerequisite for performance in this work area, as established in Resolution number 107 of 2024, issued by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment.

Equipped with modern equipment, accessories and tools, acquired through international collaboration agreements, the classrooms-laboratories create facilities to develop practical activities that reinforce the theoretical knowledge through demonstrative exercises.

In addition to training personnel in charge of refrigeration and air conditioning work, Cuba is moving forward in the replacement of devices that use Sao, from compliance with a schedule drawn up in the nation to eliminate, permanently and before 2030, the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs).