Definition
of functions and responsibilities
Beyond the attributions
that correspond to the people with specific preventive functions, the
organization of the prevention is based on the definition of clear and
unequivocal form of the functions and preventive responsibilities in the
different hierarchic levels from a company. In order to define the same
ones in this NTP one is going away to start off, as a example, of a
company "type" of three hierarchic levels, with the following
structure: Direction, intermediate People in charge of the different
functional units, Controls, and Workers. The chosen preventive modality in
the example is the one of designated Worker (also denominated in this
Coordinating document of Prevention, with the purpose of not confusing the
figure of designated worker when the chosen modality is the complete
agreement of the preventive activity with an Other people's Service of
Prevention). It has been considered that also exists Delegates of
Prevention and Committee of Security and Health in the Work.
Next possible functions
and competitions of each group of the organization of the company are for
a reason or purpose merely of example. Evidently the greater emphasis in
an u others will depend on the company policy.
Address
It is responsibility of
the direction (industralist) guaranteeing the security and the health of
the workers of his position. She is the one in charge to develop to the
preventive organization of the company defining the functions and
responsibilities corresponding to each hierarchic level. It is fundamental
for the success of the preventive action that is implied actively,
establishing to power to be in writing a series of commitments and
objectives to fulfill. Some examples of possible performances to follow
are:
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To establish annual
objectives of Prevention of Labor Risks in coherence with the existing
preventive policy
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To establish the
necessary and obligatory organizational structure for the
accomplishment of the preventive activities (*)
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To designate to a
person in the matter of Security and Health, that coordinates and
controls the performances and maintains informed to the organization
into most significant in this matter.
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To establish the
competitions and the interrelations of each department in the matter
of prevention of labor risks.
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To assign the
resources necessary, as much human as material, to obtain to the
objectives establecidos.(*)
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To promote and to
participate in periodic meetings to analyze and to discuss to subjects
of security and health, and to try to also deal with these subjects in
the normal meetings work.
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To visit the work
places periodically to be able to stimulate efficient behaviors, to
detect deficiencies and to transfer interest by its solution.
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Periodically to make
internal audits and revisions of the policy, organization and
activities of the company, reviewing the results of the same one.
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To show interest by
the labor accidents happened and the adopted measures to avoid its
repetition.
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To recognize the
people its profits, according to the objectives and raised
performances
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To consult to the
workers in the adoption of decisions that can affect the security,
health and conditions of work (*)
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To be interested and
to participate, when therefore one settles down, in the
procedimentadas preventive activities
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Other actions that
are considered opportune.
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People
in charge of the different functional units
The people in charge of
the different departments or functional units from the company are the
ones in charge to impel, to coordinate and to control that all the carried
out performances in their respective areas follow the directives
established by the direction on prevention of labor risks.
As specific performances
of this hierarchic level could be enumerated the following ones:
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To lend the aid and
necessary means to the intermediate controls of its functional unit in
order that these can accomplish their missions correctly. To such aim
they will have to assure that such intermediate controls properly are
formed.
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To fulfill and to
make fulfill preventive the objectives established, establishing of
specific for its unit, on the basis of the received directives
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To cooperate with
the different functional units from the company in order to avoid
duplicity or contrariedad of performances.
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To integrate the
aspects of Security and Labor Health, as well as of Quality and
Medio.ambiente in the meetings of work with its collaborators and in
the procedures of performance of the unit.
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Periodically to
review the conditions of work of its scope of performance, according
to the established procedure.
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To participate in
the investigation of all the accidents with injury happened in its
functional unit and to be interested in the adopted solutions to avoid
its repetition.
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To participate in
the planned preventive activities, according to the established
procedure
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Occasionally to
promote and to participate in the elaboration of procedures of work in
those tasks critics that are made normal or in their functional unit.
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To carry out a
pursuit and combat operations control of improvement to make in its
scope of performance, arisen from the different preventive
performances
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Other functions
nondescribed that the direction establishes.
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Intermediate
controls
Between the intermediate
command missions they could appear the following ones:
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To elaborate and to
transmit the referring procedures and instructions to the works that
are made in their area of competition.
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To guard by the
fulfillment of the procedures and instructions of the workers to its
position, making sure that security and health in the work are carried
out in the due conditions of
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To inform to the
affected workers of the existing risks in the protection and work
places and of the preventive measures to adopt.
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To analyze the works
that are carried out in their area detecting possible risks or
deficiencies for their elimination or minimización
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To plan and to
organize the works of its scope of responsibility, considering the
preventive aspects to consider
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To watch with
special attention those situations critics that can arise, either in
the accomplishment of new tasks or or the existing ones, to adopt
immediate cogoverning measures.
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To investigate all
the accidents and incidents happened in its area of work, according to
the established procedure and to apply the preventive measures
necessary to avoid its repetition
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To form to the
workers for the safe and correct accomplishment of the tasks that they
have assigned and of detecting the deficiencies on the matter.
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To apply in the
measurement of its possibilities the preventive measures and
suggestions of improvement that their workers propose.
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To transmit to its
collaborating interest by its conditions of work and for recognizing
its performances and their profits
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To apply in term the
decided preventive measures in its scope of performance
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Workers
Within the
responsibilities of the workers the following ones could be included:
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To guard, according
to its possibilities and by means of the fulfillment of the prevention
measures that in each case are adopted, by its own security and health
in the work and by the one of those other people to which it can
affect his professional activity, because of its acts and omissions in
the work, in accordance with their formation and the instructions of
the industralist. (*)
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To use suitably, in
agreement with its the foreseeable nature and risks, the machines,
apparatuses, dangerous tools, substances, equipment of transport and,
in general, any other means with which they develop its activity (*)
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To correctly use
means and facilitated protective equipment (*)
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Not to put outside
operation and to correctly use the existing safeties or that settles
in means related to their activity or place of work in which this one
takes place (*)
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To inform
immediately to its superior hierarchic direct one, and the designated
workers to make activities of protection and prevention, in its case,
to the service of prevention about any situation that considers can
present/display a risk for the security and health. (*)
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To contribute to the
fulfillment of the obligations established by the competent authority
with the purpose of protecting the security and health of the workers
in the work (*)
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To cooperate with
its direct controls to be able to guarantee conditions of work that
are safe and they do not involve risks for the security and the health
of the workers in the work (*)
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To maintain clean
and ordered its surroundings of work, locating the equipment and
materials in the assigned places.
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To suggest the
measures that consider opportune in their scope of work to improve the
quality, the security and the effectiveness of the same one.
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Other functions that
the direction creates advisable and according to the preventive system
approved and with the consultation the representatives of the workers.
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Designated
worker
The designated worker is
the person named by the direction to collaborate actively in the
development of the preventive plan, being able to make compatible his
functions in this matter with others, based on his capacities and
availability. He would have to have like mini formation to develop
functions of basic level (
Art. 35 of the RSP ), although could be recommendable that according
to the circumstances (so large of company, activity, risks,
characteristics of the preventive plan, etc.) the designated worker was
qualified to make functions of intermediate level and even superior (
Art. 36 and 37 of the RSP ) Within its functions in preventive matter
they could appear the following ones:
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To advise and to
support the different established preventive activities
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To promote the safe
behaviors and the correct use of the protection and work parties, and
to foment the interest and cooperation of the workers in the action
preventiva.(*)
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To promote, in
individual, basic the preventive performances, such as the order, the
cleaning, the signaling and the general maintenance, and to carry out
its pursuit and control (*)
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To collaborate in
the evaluation and the control of the general and specific risks of
the company, carrying out visits to the effect, attention to
complaints and suggestions, registry of data, and whichever analogous
functions are necessary (*)
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To act in case of emergency and first aid managing the first interventions to the effect (*)
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Of attending and of participating in the meetings of the Committee of Security and Health, when it exists, in quality of
asesor.
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Canalizar the information of interest in preventive matter towards the structure of the organization, as well as the results of the development of combat operations of
preventiva.
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To facilitate the coordination of the interdepartmental relations in order to facilitate the cooperation necessary and to avoid adverse defects and effects for the security and health in
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To review and to control the documentation referring to the Prevention of Labor Risks assuring his to
disponibilidad.
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Delegates of Prevención
The delegates of Prevention are the representatives of the workers with specific functions in the matter of prevention of risks in the work. They will be designated by and between the representatives of the personnel. Its election and the number comes determined by the
Law 31/1995 or pacts and agreements between sectors. In some occasions their functions can to this end be carried out by other constituted organs. So and as it indicates the legislation are competitions and faculties of the Delegates of Prevention:
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To collaborate with the direction of the company in the improvement of the action preventiva.(*)
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To promote and to foment the cooperation of the workers in the execution of the norm on prevention of labor risks (*)
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To be consulted by the industralist, with previous character to its execution, about any decision that could have substantial effect on the security and the health of the workers (*)
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To exert a work of monitoring and control on the fulfillment of the norm of prevention of labor risks (*)
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To assume the competitions of the Committee of Security and Health, if this one does not exist (*)
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To accompany to the technicians in the evaluations of preventive character of the medio.ambiente of work (*)
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To accompany to the Inspectors by Work and Social Security in the visits that make in the work centers (*)
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To have access to the information and documentation relative to the conditions of work that are necessary for the exercise of their functions (*)
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To be informed by the industralist on the damages produced in the health into the workers and on the activities into protection and prevention into the company (*)
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To make visits to the work places to exert a work of monitoring and control of the state of the conditions of work (*)
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To communicate during the day of work with the workers, without alters the normal development of the productive process (*)
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To promote improvements in the levels of protection of the security and health of the workers (*)
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To propose to the organ of representation of the workers the adoption in the agreement of paralyzation of the activities in which a serious and imminent risk exists (*)
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To go to the Inspection of Work and Social Security if they consider that the adopted measures and the used means are not sufficient to guarantee the security and health in the work (*)
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(*) These performances are gathered in the Law 31/1995 or RSP |