2023-05-24 07:55:57
Let’s imagine for a moment that three buses full of people plunge down a ravine and all their occupants die. Dramatic, right? On May 1, a working woman died and 39 were injured in a work accident when the bus that took her to her job overturned; Just a few days ago, a worker died in Córdoba due to a fall from a height and as of April 30, 2023, 50 people had died due to a work accident. It is evident that as long as there is no consolidated preventive culture and companies continue to see prevention as something secondary and accessory and not as something a priority, the list will increase and the accident rate bus will fill up again as it did in 2022, when they died 155 people; 556 in the last 5 years. In addition, thousands of other people have suffered accidents and ended up with sequelae that have left them unable to carry out their usual jobs.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg that we make visible, because many other people fell ill at work or died as a result of occupational diseases that, for the most part, are not recognized as such.
We know that the causes that cause accidents at work are the absence of protection, little or no training for the development of the entrusted work, lack of preventive resources at the scene of the accident, lack of investigation of the same, non-existence of work procedures , the company has not provided adequate means of protection, incorrect assessment of occupational risks or job insecurity, among other issues. In all these causes there is a common link that unites them: the lack of prevention. That is why the need to recover it as a strategic element is unquestionable, because when there is prevention, accidents are avoided and risks are reduced. On the other hand, the cost of not having one is sometimes the life of the worker.
It is evident that much remains to be done because occupational risk prevention is not at the operational center of companies and ensuring the health of workers is not in their DNA. Prevention continues to remain in a role that is not put into practice and, consequently, does not reach its objective: to guarantee the safety and health, physical and mental, of working people.
At CCOO we understand that for this to change it is essential that prevention take a new course and that companies assume their direct responsibility. The solution is not to penalize when there is an accident, but to prevent the accident from occurring.
But public administrations also have to ensure the life and health of working people, because we only have one health. For this reason, we once again demand that the Andalusian Government urgently implement the Shock Plan against accidents in Andalusia, which it committed to in the agreement signed on March 13, to put an end to this scourge of deaths at work. We need the workplace accident rate to be zero and the Andalusian Government has the authority to work in that direction, starting with executing that Plan, and it is already late because while you think about it, workers continue to die.
In the same way, it is necessary to continue advancing so that the Andalusian Occupational Health and Safety Strategy is focused on the real protection of the health of workers and for this it will be necessary for companies to place health at the center of their governance. guarantee of the safety and health of its workers, as well as facilitating and allowing the interaction of prevention delegates with all workers.
The fact that people continue to lose their lives when they go to earn it in a job is a situation that is as dramatic as it is denounceable and at CCOO we will continue to demand that the Andalusian Government and the business community invest and implement as many prevention measures as are necessary so that no one worker more get on the bus of occupational accidents.
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