García Gómez M, Manuel Gherasim A, Gisasola Yeregui A, Panadés Valls R, González García I, Arroyo F, Rodriguez Camacho C, Alonso Jiménez EM, Gómez Chomón C, Miralles Martínez-Portillo L, Carpe Carpe B, Esteban Buedo V, Martínez Arguisuelas N, Cebrián Gómez F, Briz Blázquez S, González Gómez MF, Insausti Macarrón D, Elvira Espinosa M, Blanco Álvarez LM, Hermoso Castro LF, Roldán Romero JM. [Contribution of the occupational health to the COVID-19 pandemic control.].
Rev Esp Salud Publica 2021;
95:e202110168. [PMID:
34675180]
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Abstract
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 as a public health emergency of international concern, the Spanish Ministry of Health called the health, labor, social security authorities, Labor and Social Security Inspection, National Institute of Security and Occupational Health, employers, unions, occupational risk prevention services, mutual societies and scientific societies of occupational medicine and nursing, to collaborate in the control of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in companies. The Occupational Health Group of the Public Health Commission of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, developed the Procedure for the prevention of occupational risks in the face of exposure to SARS-CoV-2, which has been updated 15 times until the date. It contains the prevention measures to be implemented in the workplaces: organizational and collective protection, personal protection, especially vulnerable worker and risk level, study and management of cases and contacts that occurred in the company, collaboration in the management of temporary disability and, more recently, reincorporation and management of vaccinated workers. As a result of these cooperation and collaboration frameworks, a series of activities were deployed in the workplace, which are described in this article.
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