Ensuring a safe workplace for our staff is not only a legal requirement, it is also an ethical obligation and, be careful, an ethical obligation. smart talent retention measure. But what should a safe workplace look like? What do we need to look out for in particular in order to ensuring security and motivation of our valuable staff? The answer is in today's article.
A safe workplace is that workplace – factory, workshop, shop, office, etc. – that complies with the Basic rules in safety, hygiene and prevention of occupational risks marked in Spain by the regulation in force.
In our country, there are many laws that can help us implement the various Health and well-being protection measures for our human team, but in the case at hand – that of understanding what a safe workplace should look like – there are two laws considered essential:
http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1995/11/10/pdfs/A32590-32611.pdf
Also, some time ago, the INSHT – National Institute for Safety and Hygiene at Work - published a brief but interesting PDF document on safe workplaces. We recommend that you download it And read it when you have a moment, it's an interesting and very educational document. http://www.insht.es/InshtWeb/Contenidos/Normativa/GuiasTecnicas/Ficheros/lugares.pdf
Reading through the above legislative references and the various blogs on Risk prevention, occupational health and safety It's logical that we make ourselves one biased idea of what should be a safe workplace focusing solely on the physical aspect of the problem. For us to focus only on the presence of EPIS o Personal Protective Equipment, of collective protection measures such as railings or Signage, of the ergonomic measurements, The quality of the air to the adequacy of the lighting according to the job. If we only focus on this physical perspective, we will be making a serious mistake: forget the psychosocial part of the problem.
What are we referring to? That to build a truly safe workplace we must working from two different perspectives, but deeply interconnected: the physical and the psychosocial.
The physical partphysical protections against specific risks that may arise in the factory, shop, office, classroom... We're talking about, for example, falls on the same or different levels, slips, electric shocks, poisoning, cuts, etc..
The psychosocial partorganisational protections to prevent very specific risks that can alter the good working environment of any organisation, risks that directly harm employee motivation and performance. Examples? Many: negative stress (distress), burnout syndrome, mental fatigue, etc.
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