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 coordination of business activities involves and it requires of the cooperation of all parts, specific obligations for each of the companies or people self-employed workers vary according to the function of each ones theirs 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.).

Knows which are figures that they intervene in a stage of confluence, identifies which you corresponds and enquiry some of your obligations:

The coordination of activity business studies:

• It is compulsory in the situations of confluence of several companies or people self-employed 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; he should not become just a documentation exchange.
• Involves also to the people self-employed workers, who are not exempt from the duty of cooperation and information and instruction.