Fraternidad-Muprespa, at a conference on diversity and gender of CEOE-CEPYME Cantabria

Natalia Fdez. effective and appropriate for exposed workers.

This session also addressed the new Spanish Occupational Health and Safety Strategy 2023-2027, recently approved and whose priority is to integrate the gender perspective into risk assessment processes and studies on occupational safety conditions. 

Fdez. Laviada presented his presentation, “Diversity and equity, keys in business management” and began by defining 'diversity' as heterogeneity, dynamism, complexity and globalization, in addition to describing it as a business challenge to add added value.

Diversity generates competition as it improves business reputation, attracts and retains talent, increases motivation, and increases innovation and creativity.

For all these reasons, the deputy director of the Mutua invites institutions, companies and corporations in general to analyze whether their entities are inclusive: if they really believe that people are the main value; if they create a flexible culture adaptable to people and markets; if they attract and train leaders who promote creativity and innovation; if they have appropriate Human Resources policies; if they work on external and internal communication and take care of their image and reputation.

Secondly, and focusing on the concept of 'equity', it focused on the importance of women's access to the labor market, under equal conditions, something that has marked, in the workplace, the history of the 20th century. To this end, he described the benefits that companies obtain if they work for a real conciliation, among them, the improvement of their image, their credibility and their prestige, the enrichment of the corporate and organizational culture, and the broadest possibility of finding qualified personnel.

Finally, he described how the gender difference affects occupational health, differentiating three large blocks: the first, the impact on women's mental health, the second, segregation, which leads to many of the most precarious jobs being feminized jobs, and third, androcentrism, by which job security has been thought of in a masculine key, for example through the design of PPE for male bodies. 

He also explained to the audience that Fraternidad-Muprespa has been a signatory of the Diversity Charter since 2011, and therefore endorses its decalogue of organizational principles. You can see the news by clicking here