FSC-CCOO Seguridad Pública | 26 de abril de 2024

Current situation of occupational hazard prevention in the spanish police

    The crucial issue facing Security Forces and Authorities in Spain is the prevention of occupational hazards. A problem that affects all police forces, regardless of whether they are dependent on the state, region, or locality. Alfredo Sánchez Hernández - Doctor in Business Organization and union delegate of the CCOO Federation of Citizenship Services - analyses the deficiencies and shortfalls faced by those carrying out public security service throughout the entire national territory in his interesting article.

    17/09/2019. Alfredo Sánchez Hernández, doctor of Business Organization
    Alfredo Sánchez

    Alfredo Sánchez

    Sánchez highlights the current situation of these bodies and proposes solutions to the chaos reigning in various Public Administrations that may harm the health of workers. Throughout his presentation, the expert in people management analyses the current situation regarding the prevention of occupational hazards within the police profession. A job with its peculiarities, and undertaken in Spain by more than 236, 000 officers in the National and Regional Police, Civil Guard, Mossos d'Esquadra, General Canary Islands Force, and local police forces.

    Through the analysis he reaches several conclusions, for example, that there is a lack of specific regulations for the application of occupational hazard prevention in local and regional police, with the exception of Navarre, which is presented as the only Autonomous Community that applies specific measures for its Regional Police. Aside from this, regulations are unfocussed and vague, and do not help with the correct implementation of health and safety of police officers.

    Sánchez highlights the lack of training in occupational hazard prevention as part of the required subjects in police development centres. He also highlights the non-integration of prevention in all work processes, the lack of action protocols for hazards that could occur during service, the lack of personal protective equipment - not only bullet proof vests, but also anti-cut gloves, motorcycle uniform protection, etc. - the lack of health surveillance, accident investigation to find the causes and to be able to propose preventive measures so that they do not occur again (the investigations only serving to sanction the causes), and the lack of psychosocial assessments. In brief, 30 years after the European Directive was approved in 1989, public security forces are still far from achieving the required health parameters for their workers.

     

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    Current situation of occupational hazard prevention in the spanish police force