The right to prevention: An analysis of Spanish preventive organizational model

Abstract

In the prevention of occupational hazards have the perception that you have a regulatory framework, but offers undeniable points of criticism in terms of overall quality is itself. And it is that really the prevention of occupational risks continues being largely relegated to the background in the dynamic management of productive organizations.

Among the duties imposed on the employer is to guarantee and organize the prevention of risks in the company. Thus, prevention of occupational hazards, such as action to develop within the company, should be integrated into its overall management system, including both the overall activities as all hierarchical levels, through the implementation and application a plan of prevention of occupational hazards.

However, 20 years after the adoption of the LPRL, it is clear that we need to redefine the model of preventive organization, enhancing a model of prevention of occupational hazards should be coordinated transversely labor policies (which determine the conditions of employment) and It does not seem that a policy of occupational hazards is compatible without a generalized model of labor «precarious» as they are gradually being implemented in the current situation not only in our country but also in most states of the European Union.

In this discursive and reflective context, it highlights how recent legislative reforms is rethinking the organizational model of preventive activity and partly as underlying its relations with restorative protection of Social Security.