{"id":4391,"date":"2021-04-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anteaprevencion.com\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:39:53","slug":"riesgos-psicosociales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anteaprevencion.com\/en\/riesgos-psicosociales\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inspection issues a new criterion in which it warns that 'psychosocial risks' are also occupational hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"
26\/04\/21 <\/span><\/h5>\n
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The Inspection confirms that psychosocial risks are also occupational hazards and warns companies of the obligation to assess them and plan measures to solve them<\/span><\/strong> in case of problems.<\/p>\n

Companies have an obligation to assess the \"psychosocial\" risks of their employees: the possibility of suffering stress, anxiety or psychic discomfort in their work environment, and may be sanctioned by the Labour Inspection if they do not.<\/p>\n

Psychosocial risks stem from deficiencies in the design, organization and management of work, as well as a poor social context of work, and can produce negative psychological, physical and social outcomes, such as work stress, exhaustion or depression.<\/p>\n

The Occupational Risk Prevention Act provides that the employer is responsible for ensuring the physical and psychic integrity of the employee in the job assigned to him, or in each of the jobs. This is to ensure safety, ergonomics, hygiene and psychosociology.<\/p>\n

The Inspection has admitted in a new finished Technical Criterion, that companies, in compliance with the Occupational Risk Prevention Act must also take into account the risks that disturb the mental health of employees,<\/span><\/strong>something that had not been obligatory until now.<\/p>\n

In particular, it was the State Agency for Labour Inspection and Social Security, which depends on the Ministry, which is responsible for issuing on April 14 the Technical Criterion 104\/2021 on actions of the Labour and Social Security Inspection on Psychosocial Risks, and which complements Technical Criterion 69\/2009 on Harassment and Violence at Work.<\/p>\n

The new criterion is motivated by the European Commission Communication of 10 January 2017 \"Safer and healthier work for all: Modernisation of EU occupational health and safety legislation and policies\". According to the criterion, it states that \"\"stress has harmful effects on both the health of workers and the organization of work and owes it approximately half of the days of work lost<\/em>\u201d…<\/p>\n

Common risks in all companies<\/u><\/p>\n

There are risks that may be present in all types of work without any exception, regardless of the size of the company, the sector of activity, type of position performed or hierarchical level of the same, the Inspection includes, hence that all companies have an obligation to evaluate them from now on. In general, the company will have to evaluate among all workers:<\/p>\n