The gender perspective in the PRL focuses a seminar in Cádiz with the participation of Fraternidad-Muprespa

Luis Ángel Merlo, Prevention consultant at March, International Women's Day.

At the event, the speaker highlighted the importance of maintaining the integration of the gender perspective in the prevention of occupational risks over time as something “crucial to ensure that initial efforts are not diluted and that gender differences in the environment continue to be effectively addressed. work”.

Merlo highlighted that all companies, "regardless of their size must have a Protocol against Workplace Harassment. Each company must establish its priorities when implementing the guidelines for the integration of the gender perspective in preventive management, starting with what it considers most important based on to your business strategy, risks, personnel characteristics, or any other criteria you manage.”

To do this, he recommended drawing up a schedule of the process and the activities to be carried out, marking milestones that allow for monitoring and assuming that the essential previous step “is to have data disaggregated by sex, for example, requesting the mutual insurance company to analyze accident rates for the last five years for men and women to analyze trends in the accident rate.”

Among the benefits of carrying out this integration strategy, the following stood out:

• Increases the effectiveness of preventive actions and allows to bring to light previously invisible risks to intervene on them.
• Improves the preventive culture of the organization by transmitting two key ideas: health is a fundamental value and gender differences can be manage.
• Favours the productive system, since all human potential is used available.
• Attract and retain talent better since it increases job satisfaction and the quality of life of the staff
• Shows the entity's commitment to women making clear its efforts towards an ethical and responsible way of carrying out the work.