Fraternidad-Muprespa celebrates the “Give way to safe driving” day in Murcia

The headquarters of the Occupational Safety and Health Institute of the Region of Murcia hosted the day “Give way to a driving” on November 17 ", an event that is part of the V Workplace Road Safety Week organized by the Mutua, coinciding with the celebration of the World Day in Remembrance of the Victims of Traffic Accidents, on Sunday, 20 November.

___María Ángeles Villanueva, head of the Occupational Health and Safety Institute of the Region of Murcia, was in charge of opening the day, highlighting the importance of preventing accidents in itinere, those that occur on the way, both when going to work and when returning after the day, since they account for more than half of work accidents, and making known the initiatives that they are working on together with the DGT and that will see the light in the next 2023.

Virginia Jerez, Provincial Head of Traffic of the DGT of Murcia, offered data on the Road Safety Strategy 2030, which since 2009 marks the work in favor of road safety in the last decade. Among the objectives achieved through this strategy, it stands out that between 2009 and 2019 there was a 37% reduction in deaths per million inhabitants, a 35% reduction in serious injuries in accidents and a 25% reduction in young drivers (18-24 years old) in deaths and serious injuries on weekends.

By AESLEME (Association for the study of Spinal Cord Injury) its provincial representative, Juan Eulalio Martínez, has intervened, who offered testimony of the suffering caused by road accidents, both for the victims and their environment familiar.

Jesus López, consultant of Prevention of Occupational Risks of accident rate work road accidents in Murcia from 2019 to 2022, highlighting that almost two out of every three accidents, 64%, are in itinere while 36% are on mission, that is, during the course of the day.

___So far in 2022, those injured are both men (57%) and women (43%), and 58% of those have had an accident are between 25 and 44 years old. The sectors of activity to which these workers with the most accidents belong are agriculture, retail trade and the goods transport sector.

Alejandro López-Briones, provincial director of the Mutua in Murcia has closed the day by summarizing the most salient points, inviting participants to practice driving with immersive virtual reality equipment, which simulates the difficulties that arise for the driver when situations occur. adverse.

___This is the V Workplace Road Safety Week of Fraternidad-Muprespa

___This is an event organized by the Mutual Fund on an annual basis with the aim of raising awareness among mutual companies in order to reduce the accident rate work road accidents, coinciding with the celebration of the World Day in Remembrance of Traffic Accident Victims.To this end, different events were scheduled this year: a national webinar that featured important expert speakers in different aspects of road safety, four face-to-face sessions, in A Coruña, Zaragoza, Asturias and Murcia, and participation in conferences organized by the Regional Institutes for the Prevention of Occupational Risks in Jaén and Madrid, as well as a Fratertalk with Bartolomé Vargas, who was the first Road Safety prosecutor of the State Attorney General's Office, as a guest expert.