Natalia Fdez. Laviada participates in a Grupo Social ONCE webinar on health and gender
"Health and gender, prevent to transform" was the title of the Seminar organized by the Equal Opportunities Observatory of the ONCE Social Group, which took place last Tuesday, November 18 and in which he participated on behalf of Fraternidad-Muprespa Natalia Fernández Laviada, Deputy Director General of Prevention, Quality and Communication.
The webinar began with a welcome from Patricia Sanz., vice president of Equality, Human Resources and Institutional Culture, and Digital Inclusion of the ONCE Social Group, which gave way to the presentation by Fernández Laviada, “Prevention and health promotion with a gender perspective.” The deputy director highlighted the biological and social differences that affect women's health and the need for business strategies for real change.
“Incorporating the gender perspective into the prevention of occupational risks must occur as a legal imperative, for social justice and because it is evident that there are biological differences determined by sex and social differences derived from gender, and both affect occupational health.", he assured, adding that "The beginning of discrimination and non-inclusion begins with the unconscious biases with which we grew up”.
Likewise, he reviewed the legislation related to the issue, ensuring that “A multitude of regulations deal with equality, equity and the gender perspective in prevention and it is time to apply them without excuses”.
She described the need to integrate patterns into tools and machinery that do not only use anthropocentric models and explained that circumstances such as the impact of family responsibilities, vertical and horizontal segregation, different working conditions, the absence of conciliation or work-related or sexual harassment significantly affect women.
In the presentation he also cited the benefits for companies of addressing the gender perspective and establishing a strategy for change, among them, that it improves the health of the workforce, increases productivity and reinforces the preventive culture.
Finally, he responded to how a Mutual Collaborator with Social Security can help companies in this matter: requesting analysis of accidents by sex or requesting epidemiological studies and disaggregated risk assessments, among others.
He then intervened Ana Cabellos, Executive President of State Brain Damage, who stated "in Spain stroke is the first cause of death in women, and the second in men, and the first cause of long-term disability in adults"
The day ended with a question time moderated by Cristina Arias, General Counselor of ONCE.
