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Manuel del Val, Managing Director at Green Mowers (Civil Engineer)

Health management in the workplace is all about understanding risk and minimizing its impact

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Manuel del Val Managing Director at Green Mowers (Civil Engineer)

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Health management in the workplace is all about understanding risk and minimizing its impact

Burgos, August 3, 2023.- The health of employees, both physically and mentally, is a daily commitment to manage, improve and motivate. Both reactively and proactively. The motto of my Web Professional is very clear: “Passion for managing people and data”. And I promise to fulfill every day of my life. In recent weeks, I have read several analyzes on employee health and highlights:

  • Health management in the workplace is all about understanding risk and minimizing its impact. The understanding of risk starts with the recognition or mapping by the employer of the possible risk factors with the potential to cause damage to health. This factor mapping process is followed by quantification of the possible expected exposure level taking into account the duration of the activity. In turn, the minimization of impact is based on the implementation of measures designed to reduce the effect of different factors in the long term.
  • The main objectives of the concept of worker health management are to reduce as much as possible the chances of the workplace and the activities carried out there being responsible for the deterioration of the workers’ health.Increasingly, companies have assumed an active role in the prevention of illnesses associated with the workplace. First, for human reasons, the preservation of quality of life is crucial, and second, healthy workers are much more productive and have a lower level of absenteeism.It is also important to mention that with the constant changes that the World is facing, special attention must be given to programs that promote the management of workers’ mental health, in addition to physical health management, because mental health dictates the sense of well-being and quality of life.
  • Having a work environment that promotes worker health is crucial for any institution that wants to grow sustainably and also wants to keep its employees healthy and productive for long periods.Health management must be done in a shared way, between the employee and the institution, so that both parties understand how to achieve the final objective, which is the preservation of the worker’s health:
  • It is up to the institution to make workers aware of the risk factors inherent in their activity, and how to protect themselves against them. It is also the institution’s responsibility to promote a work environment where health risks are controlled to levels that have a minimal impact.
  • In turn,the worker is responsible for faithfully complying with the implemented measures and reporting possible failures or opportunities for improvement in the implemented systems.

Definitely, depending on the activities carried out in a given institution, exposure to different risk factors can be eliminated or controlled at extremely low levels, making the risks harmless to health. Therefore, investing in the implementation of personalized health management systems for each work sector is undoubtedly the way to promote the well-being and progress of individuals and their families.

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