Occupational Health and Safety specialists from Fraternidad-Muprespa participate in the IV Prevencionar Congress

Fraternidad-Muprespa has been present at the IV Prevencionar Congress, held in Madrid under the motto “Health, Safety and Sustainability#2030”, sharing its experience in the field of occupational risk prevention, through its participation in different scenarios of the event congress.

Natalia Fdez. Joyce Bruce (Sustainability and Climate Change Manager at Ernst&Young), Jesús Álvarez (Head of Merco Empresas) and Álvaro Lleó (director of the Master in People Management in Organizations at the University of Navarra).

In the debate Álvarez explained that corporate reputation is based on esteem, trust and prestige, which can be positive or negative, and translates into worth and accounting value for the entity. Lleó, for his part, highlighted the importance of ties between people to generate strong ties, as a way of sharing interests, and Bruce declared that for people's well-being to exist, it is essential that there is physical security. “The EU is defining new standards to identify data that quantify the social impact of occupational safety in companies", he concluded.

The second panel moderated by Natalia Fernández Ana Fernández Salgado (responsible for Health and Safety of the Construction Labor Foundation in Cantabria).

Ana Fernández This allows them to conclude that “in recent years the interest of the entrepreneur has changed, going from prioritizing economic benefit to prioritizing social and environmental benefits, taking into account profitability”.  

Luis Salgado assured that alliances are “pacts to achieve a common objective” and gave an example that the Construction Labor Foundation is an alliance to achieve labor improvements in the sector, as well as more training, grouping the synergies of all entities related to the prevention of occupational risks. Among these alliances, the one that links them to Fraternidad-Muprespa stood out.

David Lantarón, for his part, reflected on suicide in Spain and its incidence in the age group of working people, from which it is concluded that work stress “may be behind this type of death, which is multi-causal and has biological, social and labor”.

Also, on the 28th, the presentation of the book “Preventive Culture: how to influence security behavior took place.Good practices”, choral work compiled by Ismael Sánchez-Herrera and Javier Cassini, which includes a chapter prepared by the Department of Prevention and Development of the Culture of Health of Fraternidad-Muprespa__________

Mar Morales, director of that department, explained in the presentation of the book the importance of achieving healthy, safe and healthy work environments and pointed out that when addressing mutual companies, “especially the smaller ones, it is important to share tools with good applicability, easy to understand and use and that are low cost”. He added that these tools are designed under the parameters of VISION ZERO, the philosophy that seeks to ensure that accidents produce zero damage to health.

“This event, which acts as a stage and speaker for the prevention of occupational risks, allows of prevention of the Mutua, coming from different geographical points of Spain to promote their training and continuous learning.