Latest innovations in the management (and accommodation) of the regulatory framework of the external prevention services: the permanent search of certainties

Abstract

This article addresses two issues of relative novelty that directly affect the area of external-prevention services.

The first part of the paper examines the most important contributions contained in the recently signed second State sectoral collective agreement for external prevention services, which is definitely of interest beyond the workers directly affected by its scope, by the special nature of the activity carried out by external-prevention services. Among other questions, the structure of collective bargaining is carefully studied as well as the conventional preventions in relation to harassment at work and the creation of the sectoral Observatory as a permanent forum for social dialogue.

The second part of the analysis focuses on defining the meaning and scope of the employer’s duty in relation to the biological risk in the field of external prevention services. In this respect, and taking into consideration the national audience judgement 15/2017, on 9 February as a pretext, the incardination of health surveillance must be concretised in the field of purely health activities as well as the application on prevention service workers of the preventive provisions that our legal system provides in relation to biohazards.