The integration of prl in business management, the focus of a CESSLA day in Cáceres
Fraternidad-Muprespa participated last Friday in the conference on "Improve preventive activity and avoid accidents in your company. Benefits of integrating occupational risk prevention in business management", organized by the Extremadura Center for Occupational Safety and Health (CESSLA) and held at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Caceres.
The day is part of the X Prevention Week that the Mutual Collaborator with Social Security carries out around April 28, World Day for Safety and Health at Work. This year the chosen motto is “If everything is in its place, accidents have no place” .
The opening of the day was given by María Dolores Cortés, Provincial director of Fraternidad-Muprespa in Cáceres, who introduced the speakers and explained the axes on which the day focused.
He gave way to J uan José Pérez , head of the Technical Section of Hygiene and Ergonomics at CESSLA, which highlighted the need for risk prevention not to be alien to the business organization, but to be integrated into all phases. “Only in this way can the number of work accidents be reduced, productivity increased or the work environment improved, among other benefits,” he explained. Likewise, he added that "to efficiently integrate the prevention of occupational risks, the real involvement of management, the risk assessment of the processes, the adaptation of procedures with safety criteria, the continuous training of the team and their active participation to identify risks is essential.
Mar Morales , director of the Department of Prevention and Health Culture of Fraternidad-Muprespa, intervened Then with the presentation “ Integrating prevention is possible if you know how.”
He also explained the importance of Vision Zero and its transformative approach towards a preventive culture that is achieved by assuming leadership, identifying dangers, establishing goals, systematizing processes, using safe technologies, improving and developing skills and intervening in people, motivating their involvement. Juan Manuel Valmorisco , head of the Technical Section of Security and Training of the CESSLA, listed in his speech, “ Benefits of a correct integration of the ORP in the company ”, the items with which that the benefits of such integration are achieved, among others, the importance of working with social and economic indicators at the same time, taking into account that safety and health at work cannot be based only on the latter. Also, when faced with a risk of serious consequences, action must be taken quickly, taking immediate actions, being essential to find at all times the best ways to optimize efforts. Pilar Bueno , General Director of Labor of the Junta de Extremadura, intervened next to present the “Actions of the ITSS regarding PRL in Extremadura in 2025. Public aid to the companies of the Junta de Extremadura” .
Finally, Montserrat Martín , d Territorial Director of the ITSS, reported on the action plans for specific control campaigns in certain risk sectors as well as the advisory tasks to verify. compliance with the prl law.
The day ended with the interventions of two company representatives, who highlighted the benefits of the implementation of a preventive culture and its direct improvement in the company's image Alberto García , Quality&Enviroment Manager. At Simelsa, addressed the importance of correct application of standards and procedures in the organization, as a driver of a solid preventive culture in terms of occupational health and safety. preventive in the workplace
