Fraternidad-Muprespa participates in a conference on ORP in mini-SMEs

Fraternidad-Muprespa was present last Thursday at the conference “Barriers that prevent the efficient use of safety and health at work in mini-SMEs” organized by Fasecolda, Federation of Colombian Insurers, in collaboration with the ORP Foundation.

Natalia Fdez.

After a description of the history and functions performed by the current Social Security Collaborating Mutual Funds, he offered data on their current reality: they protect a working population of more than 17.5 million, they have almost 1.4 million associated companies, more than a thousand healthcare centers and some 21,500 professionals.

“Mutual societies are the work accidents and occupational diseases avoided, the work of more than 21,500 professionals, the time for more than three thousand fathers and mothers to care for their children, and those responsible for paying benefits, such as the extraordinary one for cessation of activity of the self-employed worker due to covid 19, almost five million euros paid,” he stated and then explained that since 1995, the year in which the Risk Prevention Law came into force Labor, “work accidents have been reduced by 57% but in 2021 there have been 705 deaths and almost 18% more work accidents, therefore something is still not working well.”

Fdez.Laviada pasó a continuación a enumerar las barreras que las pymes, que representan el 95% del tejido empresarial español, encuentran en el ámbito de la prevención de riesgos laborales:

• Non-existence of real preventive culture: the current one is deficient, immature, poorly understood and poorly integrated
• Absence of practical approach in the detection of labor needs
• HTMLTAG38___Lack of concrete action guidelines to integrate the PRL
• Lack of aligned involvement by all agents involved
• Insufficient allocation of human and material resources in company budget items
• High demand for technical knowledge in constantly changing disciplines
• Excessive bureaucracy
• Lack of real conviction in the functions performed by outside prevention services
• Unattractive: repetitive theoretical training that contributes little
• Reactive approach only becomes important when there is an accident or there is an official requirement
• Thinking that it is against production

Therefore, it provided some possible solutions to implement effective occupational risk prevention:

• A prevention adapted to the nature and level of risks of the company
• HTMLTAG152___Recognize that prevention is an integral part of the company's management and have the participation of the staff
• Establish that responsibility for prevention lies with the entire organization with a commitment to continuous improvement and review

These solutions converge with the eight concepts that, according to Fraternidad-Muprespa are key to effective prevention: training, information, communication, sensitization, awareness, practical learning, training and leadership.