APRIL 28 WORLD DAY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK: PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

Poster from April 28, 2013 of the mutual company Fraternidad-Muprespa

Since 1996, unions worldwide have been commemorating the victims of work accidents and occupational diseases on April 28 of each year.

Starting in 1999, and at the proposal of the National Commission for Safety and Health at Work, by Order of March 30, 1999, the Ministry of Employment and Social Security of our country established, as Safety and Health at Work Day, April 28 of each year.

Since 2003 the ILO, a tripartite International Organization, accepted the initiative of the trade union organizations and turned it into an annual day worldwide, promoted to draw attention to accidents and diseases caused by work, for their reduction and elimination in the world.

Around this date, hundreds of national and international organizations make statements, promote various types of events, propose and develop activities that lead to the reflection of all citizens, institutions and organizations most related to the problem.

Information and the maximum extension of the commemoration must play a crucial role in all activities, since the priority intention is to reach the maximum number of people and institutions, to encourage concern and action regarding this problem and to promote measures that lead to its solution. The choice of slogans has the purpose of synthesizing the objective into a message that allows maximum communicative effectiveness in the desired result.

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This year the International Labor Organization focuses on the PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES, calling on governments, employers and workers and their organizations to collaborate in the development and implementation of national policies and strategies aimed at preventing occupational diseases.

An occupational disease is an illness that is contracted as a result of work performed and caused by the action of elements or substances and in activities specified by law.

Occupational diseases are not the product of fatality nor do they depend on the strength of people, as we have wanted to represent in the poster. On the contrary, there are causes that cause them, that are known and that are regulated. Therefore it is possible to avoid them.

The risk assessment of the workplace is the essential element for this. If the results of the evaluation reveal risk situations, the employer must carry out those preventive activities necessary to eliminate or reduce and control such risks.

If signs appear that prevention measures are insufficient or if the result of health surveillance is detected in medical examinations, the employer must carry out an investigation in this regard, in order to detect the causes and again put measures in place to avoid them.

Poster for World Day for Safety and Health at Work - Fraternidad-Muprespa

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