Coordinación de actividades empresariales

The contracting of works or services in the business field, regular practice currently, takes partner several companies' confluence or people self-employed workers in the same work centre, which it can cause because of the interaction of different developed activities and of inherent risks that each takes partners, situations in which the possibility of accident is seen aggravated, as also its potential consequences.

It is for this reason that the standard in risk prevention at work it dedicates special attention to these situations, in the article 24 of the law of risk prevention at work , and in its development in the Royal Decree 171/2004, establishing the need of carrying out a coordination of business activities to control those interactions and to guarantee that companies or concurrent self-employed workers people act in a coherent way to principles of the preventive action and they apply correctly work methods.

Although the duty of cooperation equally applies to all companies and acting parties freelance workers people, specific obligations for each of them vary according to its function in the situation of confluence (relationship with the place in which take place works, type of contract job, position in the out-sourcing chain, etc.). Know them below.

Although the objective of the EAC is clear and specific, often becomes just a documentation exchange between parts, without practical and effective contribution to the objective that was pursued initially and, therefore, in a sterile and unproductive process that only serves to cover the dossier when dealing with the legal requirement. Causes more usual that they contribute to it are:

• Procedures of very defensiveEAC, oriented exclusively to prove the legal requirement, in which predominates:
  • Evidential accumulation documentaries, including anyone who do not keep no relationship with the security and the health in the situation of confluence.
  • Absence of information analysis received, so that of its content not no concrete measure is derived that it contributes to the control of the risk situations.
• Isolated perception of the EAC, as something completely disconnected and disentailed of works that they motivate it. The EAC is usually conceived as a punctual management, that it owes carry out before the beginning of the works, and not as a constant process and I do at the same time during their development. This, in the most part of cases, has following implications:
  • There are no means of coordination or, when they exist, are not suitable to nature and circumstances of works.
  • Any type of follow-up is not made nor control on the development of the works, something that it contrasts with the applied determination in stockpile the of documentation. 

The EAC owes contemplate as a constant process aimed at to integrate the prevention in each of the phases of works, that is initiated in the moment it emerges the need of contracting a work or service and that it finishes in order to the out-sourcing relationship, and they which must derive concrete measures, applicable and effective that they contribute to the improvement of the works' health and safety conditions in confluence.

It involves some mechanisms' establishment of suitable coordination, that they must promote the agile communication and exchange and continuing of information between different parts, and that each one of these (named company and concurrent) assumes in a proactive way and person in charge activities that in every phase him correspond. The security and the health in the situation of confluence is thing of all parts that they intervene, then deficiencies or lack of commitment of one of them can shock in the rest.

In order to to contribute to a paradigm shift, towards a coordination of business activities with the focus in the result and not only in proving the legal requirement , Mutua Universal you offers a brief guide of good work experience programs that it describes different phases of the process, the function that owes adopt the named company, those present and the principal when it exists, and the information flow between them.

The coordination of activity business studies:

• It is compulsory in the situations of company or person confluence freelance workers (Article 24 LPRL).
• It requires of the shared responsibility of all parts and pursues to guarantee the protection of people that they participate in the works.

Although the normative framework is necessary to regular and to establish some minimum guidelines, this should not become exclusive star, nor efforts and resources must be monopolised by the evidential generation of the legal requirement.

You do not allow that the EAC is only documentation.

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