30th Anniversary of the Occupational Risk Prevention Law
November 8, 2025 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Law 31/1995 on the Prevention of Occupational Risks (LPRL), a regulation that represented a fundamental milestone in Spain, establishing a solid legal framework that recognized the right to effective protection of the safety and health of workers, adapting our legislation to the directive. European.
The core of the Law lies in the corporate responsibility to evaluate, avoid risks at their source and plan preventive action, promoting the integration of prevention at all levels of the organization, highlighting the obligation to offer adequate training and information and the guarantee of health surveillance. Likewise, the LPRL institutionalized the participation of workers through the Prevention Delegates and the Safety and Health Committees.
We want to especially highlight article 14 of the Law, which is a perfect synthesis of its objective since it establishes the general duty of protection of the employer against occupational risks, guaranteeing the safety and health of workers, as well as their right to effective protection. This duty implies the adoption of necessary preventive measures, the integration of prevention in the company, the constant monitoring of preventive activities and the non-impact of the cost of the measures on the workers.
Three decades later, although the Law has achieved important advances in the preventive culture, significant challenges persist given that workplace accidents continue to be a scourge that requires greater real integration of prevention beyond mere formal compliance, and the regulations will have to adapt to new work realities such as teleworking, digitalization, psychosocial risks or mental health to continue guaranteeing safe and secure work environments. healthy.
HTMLTAG15___At Fraternidad-Muprespa we have worked during these 30 years, and we will continue to do so, to reduce the occupational accidents of our mutual members and promote prevention and occupational health.
