Fraternidad-Muprespa inaugurates in A Coruña the exhibition “Could the Titanic tragedy be avoided?”
Last April 15 marked 111 years since the sinking of the Titanic, a historical event that remains in the global collective imagination and around which Fraternidad-Muprespa organizes the Exhibition.Could the Titanic tragedy be avoided?”, in its Provincial address of A Coruña.
Provided by the AXA Foundation and in collaboration with the Granada Science Park Consortium, the exhibition delves into the technical and human circumstances that caused that catastrophe, inviting us to explore which were decisive. It also helps to verify how the current Occupational Risk Prevention Law, of 1995, has in its articles preventive rules, applicable to the events that occurred that night.
Alejandro Lamelo, provincial director of Fraternidad-Muprespa in A Coruña, thanked the attendees for their presence at the opening of the exhibition, which will be at the Mutua headquarters for four months.
He gave the floor to Natalia Fdez. Laviada, Deputy General Director of Prevention, Quality and Communication of the Mutua, who focused on the fact that catastrophes like this continue to offer, more than a century later, “a great learning opportunity, since many of the causes and errors that caused the shipwreck are similar to those that today cause many of the work accidents that occur in our country.”
For your part Oscar Lopez, commercial director of the Western Zone of AXA Seguros, pointed out that "this type of tragedies are analyzed and studied to prevent them from happening again. There are people who inspect and review ad nauseam all the circumstances that occurred before the disaster. And their conclusions are decisive because they stimulate research into new materials, modify action protocols, ways of making or construction, production processes and even legislation."
The opening ceremony was also attended by Juan Ignacio Borrego, Councilor for Education, Employment and Institutional Relations of the City Council of A Coruña, and Elena Mancha, general director of Labor Relations of the Department of Promotion of Employment and Equality of the Xunta de Galicia.
Borrego positively valued the choice of A Coruña as the venue for the exhibition and emphasized the importance of this historic event giving greater visibility to the prevention of occupational risks, something in which he agreed with the general director, Elena Mancha, who highlighted the initiative of the Mutua and the originality of the proposal among other interesting contributions.
At the end of the turn of interventions,Antonio José Millán, director of the AXA Prevention Chair, took a guided tour of the exhibition, explaining its main characteristics and curiosities, just as he did in the space Fratertalk.
This is the exhibition “Could the Titanic tragedy be avoided?”
The visitor can see in the Log room of the Provincial Directorate, where the exhibition is displayed, an interactive simulation with the different alternative maneuvers that, to avoid the collision, the Titanic could have carried out that night, as well as the consequences of each of them.
Likewise, you can see objects and explanatory panels in Spanish and English with information available through QR codes on various key aspects of occupational risk prevention in relation to this incident, for example, how to combat risks at source, the coordination of activities or the human factor.
Before settling in A Coruña, where it can be visited over the next four months by mutualists and interest groups of
