From ugly duckling to swan: The way forward for micro and small enterprises in occupational health and safety.

1. Healthy Workplaces Summit 2013
‘Working together for risk prevention’
From ugly duckling to swan:
The way forward for micro and small enterprises in occupational health and safety
Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business.

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Accident Index (Spain 2009)
Accidents “in itínere” and self-employed workers excluding.
Size
overall
incidence
minor
accidents
incidence
serious
accident
incidence
fatal accidents
incidence
01 to 09 workers
4.134,1
4.079,3
48,9
5,9
10 to 25 workers
6.623,0
6.554,7
60,7
7,6
26 to 49 workers
7.147,1
7.085,2
53,5
8,3
50 to 249 workers
6.661,4
6.618,0
38,5
4,9
250 to 499 workers
5.120,5
5.092,3
25,3
2,9
500 to 1.000 workers
4.041,2
4.014,3
23,2
3,7
+ 1.000 workers
1.374,4
1.365,8
7,9
0,7
TOTAL
4.423,7
4.385,0
34,4
4,3
Micro and small enterprises have a higher accident rate than larger businesses.
These enterprises that have less than 50 employees are exposed to higher risks due
to scarce resources and the varied and casual nature of the sub-contracting work
they undertake.
Almost half of workers are working in SME.
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What do we do? (Work)
Advice, Design, Commercialization and After Sales Service of Electronic Equipment related to the Control and
Conditioning Power Supply at Low Voltage.
Who we are? (Persons and Resources):
PROTON ELECTRONICA started its activities in Bilbao in 1981 and now has 6 persons, a micro enterprise, a
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How do we want to do our work? (Aptitude + Attitude):
Safe + Effective+ Efficient = Común Sense.
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Exemplary and proportional
Manager
Leadership
Liderazgo
de la
Manager
Dirección
Leadership
Effective
Documentation
•Top manager must find a non negotiable
reason to leadership OSH in the
Company.
•Effective documentation as way of
internal Cohesion and Communication.
•Your own health and safety documents.
Communication
Effective
Participation
Documentation
•Not optional.
•OSH is not the exclusive responsibility
of the Director.
Communication
Training
Participation
•Enabled both management and
workers.
Training
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Documentation:
•Own
•Graph
•Helpfull
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Documentation:
•Integrated
•Profitable
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Monthly
Internal Review
2 of 8 sheets
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Summarizing Difficulties, Solutions, Results and Satisfaction.
-The director does not support me! (OSH)
•Unsolvable for SME
•Zero accident rate permanent.
-I lose some customers!
•This is part of the investment in PRL.
(You have a reason non negotiable.)
•Absenteeism 2012: 0,69 vs 6,16 Sector.
-Workers are not involved!
•Exemplary and Persistence.
Tools to participate:
Reunions, Forms, Integration ...
•Good working atmosphere.
•Legal Security for Management.
•Social Recognition and Business Reputation.
April 29th in Dublín:
“The benefits of good occupational health and safety policies are still not always recognised at the
individual company level in Europe, and especially among micro, small and medium-sized
enterprises,” said Dr Christa Sedlatschek, Director of EU-OSHA.
'This competition proved that it is possible that even a company with only seven employees can have
innovative prevention solutions, as was the case with one of the Spanish award-winners,' she added.
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To all who working together us for risk prevention
Thanks
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European Winners Good Practice Awards Campaigns 2010-2011 & 2012-2013
Communication
Participation
Training
Effective
Documentation
Manager
Leadership
Manager
Leadership
Effective
Documentation
Communication
From ugly duckling to swan:
The way forward for micro and
small enterprises in occupational
health and safety
Participation
Training
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