The mayor of Oviedo inaugurates “Prevention Posters of the 20th century” organized by Fraternidad-Muprespa
The capital of the Principality hosts until the 16th the Exhibition “Prevention Posters of the 20th Century”, organized by
This is a traveling exhibition put together by the Mutual Collaborator with Social Security in collaboration with the AXA Foundation to disseminate the importance of preventive culture throughout the country.
The first mayor of Oviedo, Alfredo Canteli, highlighted at the opening ceremony that “the City Council's commitment to the prevention of occupational risks is total, since as a public administration, we take very seriously seriously the safety and well-being of our staff, which ultimately results in the quality of the service we provide to citizens and which must be the best possible.”
Likewise, Canteli thanked Fraternidad-Muprespa and the AXA Foundation for choosing Oviedo as the venue for this traveling exhibition. “The culture of preventive responsibility to reduce accidents at work is essential for the proper functioning of any company, something that was amply demonstrated in the pandemic when workers had to adapt to unprecedented situations,” he concluded.
Natalia Fdez. promote occupational risk prevention activities within the protective action of Social Security, to reduce work accidents and occupational diseases “that continue to plague us and that contribute to increasing absenteeism from work whose figures are already becoming unbearable.” “This exhibition is a testimony that allows us to analyze the evolution of occupational risk prevention in history and raise awareness about it,” he added.
Estíbaliz García, Commercial Director of the Western Zone of AXA, focused on the fact that "work risks are a matter of vital importance to which we must all pay attention and this exhibition is a very important link in our historical trajectory aimed at preventing risks. These posters, among which there are "Something related to mining, they must help continue moving forward." After offering data on deaths at work in 2021, 700 people, he expressed his conviction that “the exhibition will make people reflect on the accident rate.”
Miryam Hernández, director of the Asturian Institute for Occupational Risk Prevention, highlighted the importance of preventive communication and explained that the organization she directs considers “a necessity to combine all the actions and all the possible synergies so that the preventive culture is reality.” “No matter how much times advance, classic risks continue to leave fatal accidents.Let's not think that the message does not need to be conveyed, we need it to sink in, so that the entire society becomes aware of a reality, which is the scourge of workplace accidents," he concluded.
After the interventions, Antonio José Millán, director of the AXA Chair of Prevention, took a tour through the exhibition, explaining to the numerous attendees the most notable characteristics of the posters.
This is the exhibition of Prevention Posters of the 20th century
The exhibition already has 39 locations in 25 provinces, a route of 30,000 kilometers and an audience of around ten million people. Belonging to the La Retrografia collection and focused on the theme of safety at work, prevention and the occupational health, each poster that is part of the exhibition, makes a free audio guide available to the visitor using a QR code, to better understand each work and contextualize the exhibition.
In addition to the value of the posters as testimony to the way in which risk prevention was communicated in the last century, they are also first-rate artistic works, signed, in some cases by important poster artists from a hundred years ago, such as Callejo, Niebla or Cerro. ___
After exhibiting in Santander, Vigo, Granada, Murcia, Valencia, León and Éibar, its next stop will be in Pamplona.
