FRATERTALKS EDITIONS 2021

What do you know about Neurolinguistic Programming, also called NLP? How can NLP help us reduce workplace accidents? How can it help us in our day-to-day goals?

To talk about this exciting world yet to be discovered, we had as a guest the only NLP Master Trainer in Spain and director of the Talent Institute, Xavier Pirla, who offered us some keys to achieve, through NLP, changing insecure behavior for a preventive attitude, how to train certain essential skills for middle managers and the importance of how we communicate. 

Is it possible to predict accidents? Do accidents follow any pattern that allows us to anticipate them before they happen? Is there any mathematical formula that helps us know what the chances are of an accident occurring? 

These and other questions were answered by the guest of this Fratertalk, Ricardo Díaz, professor of engineering at UDIMA and Dean of the Official College of Chemists of Madrid, and one of the people who has most deeply studied the prediction of accidents through a fully analytical approach, even designing mathematical models for the prediction of workplace accidents.

Coinciding with the first anniversary of the uncontrolled explosion of the virus in our country and with the start of the vaccination campaign, we celebrate this Fratertalk to talk about the present and future of the pandemic. 

And for this there is no one better than an expert of the stature of Carmen Cámara, secretary of the Spanish Society of Immunology and clinical immunologist at the La Paz Hospital in Madrid. In a brilliant, didactic and illustrative way, Carmen left us interesting reflections on controlling the virus and the steps to follow to get closer to the end of the pandemic.

This edition of Fratertalks is a little special, since we do not have a single guest as is usual, but on this occasion there were five!, corresponding to the winners of each of the categories of our Escolástico Zaldívar 2804 Awards. 

An unbeatable opportunity to share knowledge and experiences in occupational safety, knowing first-hand the good preventive practices that these companies have carried out and that have earned them this important recognition.

There is no doubt that to achieve the goal of making prevention part of the daily life of our organizations, preventionists have to have a series of skills essential for prevention today and, above all, tomorrow.

In this edition of Fratertalks, Javier Gay de Liébana, lecturer, consultant, trainer and pedagogical manager of Walking Training, shared with us the keys to a series of skills necessary to achieve our prevention objectives, such as emotional intelligence, leadership, assertive communication, persuasiveness, people management or conflict resolution, among others.

In this Fratertalk we talk about one of the aspects that has been most reflected on: happiness at work. Does happiness lead to good mental quality, or is it the other way around? Can you work on happiness in the workplace? What's more, can a worker leave his job happier than when he enters? How do psychosocial risks affect employee happiness and their personal and family environment? 

We spoke about these and other issues with Dr. Paloma Fuentes, director of Summa Felicidad, director of the Indorg master's degree in Individual and Organizational Neurohappiness, in addition to being one of the pioneers in talking openly about happiness and its development in the workplace.

Technology advances and with it also the prevention of occupational risks. Not long ago, the use of drones seemed somewhat futuristic to us, more like a science fiction movie than reality, but, like any work equipment, they also have some risks that must be taken into account.

In this Fratertalk, Carmen Alvarado (technical coordinator in the General Sub. of Prevention, Quality and Communication of

Possibly you have ever arrived at work thinking about how to improve some aspect that will help you take one more step to achieve the established objectives. In an increasingly demanding and competitive business world, it is necessary to bring out the best in the people we work with, enhancing both the qualities of each one and focusing on aspects that can be improved. This is where leadership takes on all its importance.

If we apply it particularly to the field of occupational safety, a committed and motivated work team will make the path to achieve the objectives we set much less winding, and above all, it will make us grow both collectively and individually.

Sonia Medrano, Territorial Director of the southern zone of Fraternidad-Muprespa and author of the book "The inspiration of Mondays", speaks to us at length about this and other issues.

Framed within the IV Workplace Road Safety Week organized by

In addition to the traditional and well-known risk factors (which we have not yet managed to eliminate), new ones have been added such as technological distractions or new forms of mobility. This means that we are possibly living in one of the most challenging times regarding road safety, making it more necessary than ever to focus on actions to prevent workplace traffic accidents.

On this occasion we talk about an increasingly widespread disease: depression and mental health problems. Not in vain does the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that more than 300 million people around the world suffer from depression and other mental disorders and it is expected that by 2030 it will be the main cause of illness.

Sara Reyes Martín, psychologist expert in family and systemic therapy and pre-doctoral researcher at IBIMA (Biomedical Research Institute of Málaga), shared, among other things, the factors that can cause a person to develop depression, how we can help a worker  who is suffering from it and what the company  can do for the emotional well-being of its workers.

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