SEMINARS ON LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK IN PORTUGAL

INERCO Portugal has celebrated in Lisbon a technical session focused on legal developments and practical solutions regarding Safety and Health at Work in the industry.

This conference allowed for going further in depth with new EU regulations and their next implementation in Portugal. Concepción Pérez, Technician of the Division of Risk Prevention of INERCO, explained the new developments that the European Directive 2013/35/EU on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to electromagnetic fields will bring, a regulation that substitutes the Directive 2004/40/EC and that will come into force in Portugal very soon. After one year of the transposition of this new Directive in Spain, the expert at INERCO explained to the participants the main developments that contribute as well as practical tips for its application.

Bruno Batista, of INERCO Portugal, and José Luis Galdón, of the Division of Risk Prevention of INERCO, demonstrated specific solutions for machinery and work equipment resulting from existing EU regulations, a speech that provided a breakdown of services —turnkey— of the implementation of solutions in machines and work equipment resulting from the application of this regulation, with the criteria of Safety, Production and Maintenance and practical examples.

The last point of the Technical Session focused on methodologies ‘Zero Accidents’ currently applied by INERCO worldwide, an objective to which the companies make strong efforts each year. Pablo Navarro, manager of INERCO Risk Prevention, addressed the methodology to carry out diagnostics that clarify problems with accidents that occur in day-to-day work, as well as the tools applied to minimize accidents, because, as he stated, “despite the efforts made involving safety, it is not difficult to see how accident rates are stagnant or go up, or sometimes fatal accidents occur or even high levels of accident rates are maintained”.

For Artur Landeiro, General Manager of INERCO Portugal, this Technical Session has allowed his participants —representatives of the main business sectors and public administration— to have in-depth knowledge of useful tools for day-to-day management regarding Safety and Health for workers, “an area of great sensitivity and necessary action, for which INERCO has more than 30 years of experience in different industrial sectors and with projects in over 60 countries all over the world”.