Fraternidad-Muprespa conference on occupational diseases
Fraternidad-Muprespa, Mutual Collaborator with Social Security No. 275, has held an online information day on “Occupational Diseases and their treatment in mutual.
More than three hundred labor advisors and legal professionals from Galicia and Castilla y León have virtually attended this event to learn in detail about the applicable regulations and the management procedure.
Jacobo Baró, territorial director of the Northwest zone welcomed the attendees and thanked them for their participation, highlighting the importance of this type of conference due to its scope and the interest aroused by the topic discussed among the advisory group in just a short half hour.
Francisco Barroso, territorial coordinator of Economic Benefits of the Northwest zone has explained the regulations that regulate occupational illness, emphasizing articles 157, 169 and 176 of the General Law of Social Security on the concept and peculiarities with the difference to the work accident, to later comment on the Royal Decree 1299/2006 and TAS Order 01/2007 that modernized the telematic transmission of the professional disease report model and updated the table of occupational diseases. Likewise, it has explained the financial benefits that come with a occupational illness, both in the period of temporary disability and in the event of ending up with some type of sequelae after treatment.
For her part, Dra. Lourdes Pardo, ___territorial care coordinator of the Northwest zone has highlighted the difficulty that often entails the management of an professional illness, which requires both clinical and technical knowledge, emphasizing the importance of a good clinical assessment of the worker along with the assessment of the job, the tasks performed by the worker and the exposure to certain activities or agents. He has also commented on the importance of managing the help guides published by the National Social Security Institute, and has briefly explained the professional illnesses table developed more than 15 years ago, and in which only 2 modifications have been made.
On March 24, a new Fratertalk conference will be held on occupational diseases, a continuation of this webinar. This time from the perspective of occupational risk prevention.
