Safety And Health At Work Is A Right

Safety and health at work is a right

Safety and health at work (SST) is a right of high importance for all workers, regulated by laws and norms that must be met, aims to prevent occupational accidents and occupational diseases. Reason why, public and private entities must implement the improvement of occupational safety and health conditions in order to prevent damage to the physical and mental integrity of workers, which are a consequence of the activity they do, they are related or it is raised during work.

In Peru, safety and health at work is regulated by laws and their standards applicable to all economic and services sectors, it includes all employers in the public sector and private sector. Likewise, being the safety and health at work, it is a process that is part of the administrative system of human resources management in public entities, the Human Resources Office is responsible for its management and compliance with the provisions of the SST law.

From my own experience, I can attest that today companies are focused on complying with the standard and ensuring the well -being of all staff, so various programs that benefit all workers, which we can mention lifestyle have been implemented Healthy whose objective is to maintain a healthy style. Food due to work or occupations that last eight hours or more in which it remains sitting or standing. The consequences of unhealthy food can bring negative consequences in our body such as overweight and obesity, diabetes, respiratory difficulties, low self – esteem, anxiety and depression.

The collaborators especially those who belong to the office area for the work they do have a sedentary work system, lacking movement or physical activity, added to the long days in increasingly intellectual jobs, this leads to causing cardiovascular problems, generates Obesity, increases blood pressure, increases anxiety and stress etc. Another process implemented for the good health of workers is the preventive measures for exposure to radiation provided solar protectors for skin protection.

Also, for better attention in front of incidents and knowing how to respond to emergency situations, organizations are properly organized, and collaborators must follow the protocol established and trained to act in a timely manner. Brigadistas participate in emergency prevention and care tasks in the company, provide voluntary work, their own initiative, critical decisions and emotional support against pain. The objectives of the brigades are to identify, evaluate, prevent, control risk situations. To structure an emergency brigade, it should be known which with the risks associated with the operations of the companies, therefore and according to the needs, fire fighting brigades, first aid brigades, and evacuation brigades are implemented.

In the first aid brigades, the members are collaborators who have knowledge in first aid and also receive training every time, when a work accident occurs the group prepared for this purpose comes into action by providing immediate care in order to keep them alive and avoid greater damage as long as specialized medical aid is received. Evacuation brigades, this brigade group is organized in three moments, before, during and after the incidence, receives training and rescue training, meets the evacuation plan, cares about signaling, evacuation route and meeting point Sure, review and clear the evacuation routes continually, performs evacuation drills of the institution periodically

Fire fighting brigades is made up of people who have knowledge of fire prevention and extinguisher management, whose role is to try to control and extinguish a fire that can be given within the company using resources. The functions of the Brigade will cease, when firefighters arrive or the fire alarm finishes. The entire group receives training and is updated periodically, on emergency prevention and fire extinction. It is anticipated to the detection of possible fire spotlights, the fire protocol must be clear, to be in constant contact with the Fire Station, evaluates the situation and the need to perform a partial or total evacuation, in case of being helped by entities External support, delivers a clear description of the evolution of the emergency.

In conclusion, it is very important that organizations have a plan on the SST, this plan will provide guidelines and controls for favorable risk management. These processes must be applied with continuous training, talks of issues related to SST, in order to sensitize, become aware and increase the safety culture of all workers, the degree of involvement is of both collaborating and employer parties, as well as The rights and responsibilities of both parties will be reflected in the success of the SST system implemented by each organization.

After providing all the guidelines and protection systems for each labor case, the supervision and inspection is important that according to the plan imposed on organizations must be met, so that a “safe work” is oriented to identify hazards and evaluate risks and supervise the responsible behavior of workers as well as good working conditions.