“It represents a paradigm shift -Idoia Mendia said- because until now, occupational risk prevention was based solely on the job.
The new Basque Strategy for Safety and Health at Work (2021-2026) includes the gender perspective; the aging of the active population; the digitization and the rise of telecommuting, and the assessment of psychosocial risks and the stress as new prevention challenges in the world of work.
The Vice-Lehendakari and Minister of Labor and Employment, Idoia Mendia, presented this strategy, approved by the Osalan-Basque Institute of Occupational Health and Safety last December, during a conference held this Wednesday in which he highlighted that it is the result of the participation and dialogue of parliamentary groups and social agents.
“It represents a paradigm shift -he said- because until now occupational risk prevention was based solely on the job, without taking into account that physical and social differences make us run risks and different diseases”.
He has emphasized that the priority is to create employment, “but of quality and not at any price, and less at the price of health and life”, which is why the Strategy is committed to “a preventive culture, which permeates companies, social agents and the workers themselves” and has highlighted that the accident rate is “the consequence” of this lack of prevention.
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