La gerencia de la seguridad y salud ocupacional: retos para las organizaciones modernas

Abstract

Occupational health and safety management is a process carried out in organizations with the aim of carrying out an adequate management of resources destined to the achievement of the preventive policy, sustained in the design and implementation of the health and safety system. occupational, whose purpose is to minimize the manifestations of occupational accidents and illnesses, and provide a safe and healthy work environment for workers. This essay highlights the different elements that constitute this management, its function, its importance and the contributions it makes to organizations. The main link considered here is risk and hazard management, its approach and its mitigation principles. As a second topic addressed in the management process, there are legal considerations and standardization, which guides the occupational health and safety policy. On the other hand, the usefulness of occupational health management is considered, which is key to the protection of workers' health; and finally, the role of training and training programs in occupational health and safety, as an important tool, both for the management and for the construction of a preventive and safety culture in modern organizations. With the presentation of this theme, it shows on the one hand the essential areas that must be considered in the management of occupational health and safety, and at the same time the challenges that modern organizations must face in the face of the constant dynamisms in which they are faced. are involved, such as social changes, technology, new legislation and globalization..