Cong. New Works: Natalia Fdez. Laviada highlighted the importance of decent work as a source of health

Fraternidad-Muprespa this Thursday, November 20, the XIXth edition of New Works organized by the Official College of Social Graduates of Madrid. Congress and Social Order with Justice XVI. The day was inaugurated by Teresa Silleras, president of the College of Social Graduates of Madrid. Manuel Rodriguez, Vice President, and Ana Maria Orellana, Honorary President of the College and Judge of the Social Chamber of the Supreme Court.

Antonio Sempere He made an opening presentation in which he recently analyzed criminal jurisprudence on important issues in the labor field (harassment at work, sexual harassment or the crime of endangering the health of employees, among others).  On behalf of the

Mutuality, Natalia Fernández Laviada, General Deputy Director of Prevention, Quality and Communication, who took part in the panel discussion "Occupational Risk Prevention and Mental Health: current challenges" intervened, and they were there. Euskal Zutabea, primary care physician, Rafael Victor Rivelles, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at La Paz Hospital, and Raquel Vega, Head of the Psychosocial Risks Unit of the Regional Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Fdez. Laviada described companies, mutual funds and administrations in the context marked by the 30th anniversary of the Occupational Risk Prevention Act and the 2026 declaration by the Council of Ministers. "The Year of Safety and Health at Work", emphasizing the importance of cultivating psychological well-being in the work environment.

He pointed out that 15% of adults of working age have mood disorders or alterations at some point. Depression and anxiety cause loss of productivity billion euros every year. Dedicating 90,000 hours to work, almost a third of the time awake, it is essential to pay attention to the well-being of our life organization.

In Spain, 1.5 million workers In a single day they do not go to their post, which is "huge cost: loss of GDP, saturation of the public health system, productivity lower and personal consequences In the same way, he recalled that the mutual funds control the temporary disability processes due to common contingencies, checking the patient's condition, offering psychological and psychiatric help in cases of work accidents and proposing medical discharges after strict evaluations.

Fdez, Laviada, can be a decent job a motor, giving it meaning, recognition and stability. For this it must fulfill three conditions: to be useful, to connect personal purpose and business, to allow living with dignity and not to damage physical and psychological integrity.

In addition, he described talking about mental health in the company as a "necessary challenge" but ___a sample remembered that New forms of employment expose us to more and more psychosocial risks, and we must pay attention to them.

Another focus of his intervention was the prevention of workplace risks. "In Spain 99% are small companiesand it has 95.7% microEME soThe challenge is to transfer the prevention culture to them as well.".

Fd.Laviada highlighted that mental health is the result of well-being inside and outside of work. "In the workplace it is motivation, concentration, emotional balance and healthy relationships. Factors such as harassment, burnout, frustration, dysfunctional behavior or digital hyperconnection show that we are not watertight compartments: the work world and the personal world mix", he concluded, adding "It is a big challenge to separate the two worlds in a fair way, for the person and the system".