LPR: an old law worth remembering
On November 10, 1995 , Law 31/1995, on Occupational Risk Prevention , was published in the Official State Gazette . Twenty years later, there is still a certain lack of awareness regarding this legislation, both in terms of its mandatory nature and its true importance. In the 21st century, many small businesses continue to view contracting Occupational Risk Prevention services as an added and unnecessary expense, rather than considering it an investment from the outset of their business operations.
The purpose of this Law is to promote the safety and health of workers through the application of measures and the development of activities necessary for the prevention of risks arising from work.
The body responsible for monitoring and enforcing regulations on occupational risk prevention is the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate. The Law entrusts it with the following functions:
– To monitor compliance with regulations on occupational risk prevention, as well as with legal and technical standards that affect working conditions in matters of prevention, even if they do not have the direct classification of labor regulations, proposing to the competent labor authority the corresponding sanction, when it verifies an infringement of the regulations on occupational risk prevention, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VII of this Law.
– To advise and inform companies and workers on the most effective way to comply with the provisions whose monitoring it is entrusted with.
– Prepare the reports requested by the Social Courts in the lawsuits filed before them in the procedures for work accidents and occupational diseases.
– To inform the labor authority about fatal, very serious or serious work accidents, and about those others in which, due to their characteristics or the subjects affected, such a report is considered necessary, as well as about occupational diseases in which such qualifications occur and, in general, in the cases in which it requests it with respect to compliance with the legal regulations on the prevention of occupational risks.
– To verify and promote compliance with the obligations assumed by the prevention services established in this Law.
– Order the immediate cessation of work when, in the inspector's judgment, there is a serious and imminent risk to the safety or health of the workers.
Therefore, in order to comply with legal regulations and for the employer to fulfill their duty to guarantee the health and safety of the workers in their service in all aspects related to their work, from the labor area of AMBIT ASSESSOR, SL we recommend that they have contracted the prevention of occupational risks with a specialized company.
Marta Claudia Jabares
Labor Area
Àmbit Assesor
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