Adjustment of work positions

Published on: 03/12/2024

Adapt the position of work to the person is one of the principles of the collected preventive action in the Act of Prevention and as such, he owes be always current when to introduce measures that guarantee the general prevention duty in the company. It charges special relevance in certain situations as in the case of especially sensitive people when dealing with certain risks, injured people or with pathologies of origin professional whose functional skills can is altered (temporarily or permanently), being able to emerge incompatibilities with demands of the position.

Mutua Universal offers advice to its associated companies on the adaptation process of positions and how owes carry out in a suitable way in different situations, especially before the need of adapting or repositioning to injured people or with pathologies of origin professional.

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What it is

Adapt a work position supposes to analyse demands of work and the functional skills of the hard-working person to detect imbalances that justify the need of carrying out modifications. This process entails the collaboration of all parties concerned and technical advice necessary to to identify and to consider alternatives or solutions aimed at each case. Of general way adjustments can affect to:

Tasks that are required and the way in which are made.
Machines, teams and tools that are used.
Work the position environment.
Work organisations.

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Besides to comply with its obligations and responsibilities, to look after the rights of hard-working people and to avoid sanctions derived from the non-compliance of the standard, the adjustment of work positions contributes other profits for the company, the hard-working person and the wider society .

Assistance to maintain the work activity and to preserve the work of people in an effective way, sure and healthy.
It allows keeping the contributed value to the production process, to the team and to the company by the person formed and experienced.
It increases the staff's positive perception on the company (great involvement, increase sense of belonging, great perception of the preventive culture, better work climate, etc).

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How to adapt the position of work

The adjustment of work positions requires a series of steps that guarantee a suitable result. In a summarised way, can group in:

Analyse characteristics of work the position and tasks that are made in him, as well as functional skills and assessment of the person that the squatter thing.
Compare the skills of the person with demands that demands the position.
Identify and consider solutions for the adjustment.
Introduce stock or necessary actions.
Carry out a follow-up of the effectiveness of the changes.

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Published on: 03/12/2024

Get in touch with your technician/to of Mutua Universal's prevention , you will provide the guide for SMEs “Work position and structure adjustment for the outplacement of injured workers or with pathologies of origin professional”, as well as advice in any related question.

Adjustment of work positions

What it is

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How to adapt the position of work

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