Action Plan 2025-2027 of the Spanish Strategy for Safety and Health at Work

The Spanish Occupational Health and Safety Strategy (EESS) 2023-2027 has been configured as a joint working framework between public administrations and social partners, based on the commitment and collaboration of all agents.

These two principles, which have governed the strategy negotiation process, must also be present in its implementation through its action plan. The first of them for the period 2023-2024 included 106 measures aimed at achieving the six objectives set and now the action plan for the period 2025-2027 includes a total of 197 measures that give continuity to the actions initiated in its predecessor and incorporates new measures to achieve a greater degree of compliance with its objectives, which are:

• Objective 1: Improvement of the prevention of work accidents and occupational diseases.
• Objective 2: Management of changes derived from new forms of work organization, demographic evolution and climate change.
• Objective 3: Improvement of health and safety management in SMEs.
• Objective 4: Strengthen the protection of workers in situations of greater risk or vulnerability.
• Objective 5: Introduce the gender perspective in the field of safety and health at work.
• Objective 6: strengthen the National Health and Safety System to successfully face future crises are proposed.

To know the scope of the action plans, it is necessary that in the "responsible" field the institution or body in charge of its initiation and coordination be indicated, so that the agents who respectively are key to guaranteeing the efficiency of the measure will participate in its development and execution. In the case of the social partners, the most representative business and union organizations will be understood as such.

Finally, in the development of all measures aimed at adapting or modifying the regulations, the consultation and participation of the most representative business and union organizations will be guaranteed, in accordance with the provisions of article 6 of the Prevention Law, except in cases of extraordinary and urgent need.