Orihuela receives the exhibition "Prevention Posters of the 20th Century"

The La Lonja de Orihuela Cultural Center hosts the Exhibition“Prevention Posters of the 20th Century” where can be visited until next January 27. The exhibition, which has traveled more than 26,000 kilometers through various Spanish cities, continues its intense work to disseminate preventive culture and the evolution of occupational risk prevention through this retrospective.

Emilio Bascuñana, mayor of the Alicante town, presided over the opening ceremony and during his speech he praised the initiative of He has also highlighted the role of mutual societies in protecting workers and their contribution to the development of society, as well as the willingness of the council to collaborate in this matter.

For her part Silvia Vela, Director of Communication and Institutional Relations of with Social Security, its purpose is to promote preventive actions to reduce work accidents and occupational diseases, as well as to reduce work absenteeism, one of the great scourges of our country. “To that end, in 2016 we began to hold the exhibition at the headquarters of the General Treasury of Social Security, as well as in railway stations and airports throughout Spain,” he added, and then proceeded to do an explanatory tour detailing the characteristics of the posters that make up the sample.

This is the exhibition of Prevention Posters of the 20th century

Belonging to the La Retrografia collection, focused on the theme of security in work, prevention and ______health work, each poster that makes up the exhibition, makes a free audio guide available to the visitor, using a QR code, to better understand each work and be able to contextualize the entire exhibition.

This traveling exhibition has already been presented in Santander, Vigo, Granada and Murcia and will soon visit Ciudad Real, Valencia, León, Eibar, Oviedo and Pamplona, among other locations.