The difficult reconciliation of the corporate responsibility to assess the risks with telework
The occupational health paradigm implemented with the Law on Prevention of Occupational Risks in 1995 is promoting new models of preventive management, still incipient, in favor of the so-called healthy organizations. As a result of this change, there has been a move from the traditional concept of safety and health, essentially linked with occupational accidents and diseases, towards a more far-reaching concept, safety and health, including workers' health in its whole extent, whether physical, psychological and social.
After twenty years of the enforcement of the rule, there are many achievements and progress has been made in prevention, but many challenges will arise in the coming years. Among others, those related to the breakdown of space and time barriers in the labor activity as a result of the incorporation of ICT. In this regard, the article deals with the problem that arises in the enforcement of occupational health and safety in telework.
The present analysis focuses on the problem from the very basis of the practical application of the requirement of occupational safety and health in telework, the occupational risk assessment, which is the foundation on which all our regulatory structure on prevention of occupational hazards is built and connected.
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Mar Sabadell i BoschLawyer, Law Degree from the University of Barcelona and Master in Information and Knowledge Society from the Open University of Catalonia. Since 1999 she is a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UOC, where she teaches today, and during the years 2006-2009 she has held the position as deputy to the Vice President for Academic Organization and Professors.
She is a member of the research group DigiBiz (Digital Business Research Group), attached to the IN3. Her research interests are currently focused on the study of the relationship between the use of ICT and work and the development of flexible forms of work and teleworking, with a special emphasis on corporate responsibility in preventing risks associated with teleworking.
Guillermo García González-CastroLawyer and assistant professor of Labor Law at the International University of La Rioja. PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Bachelor of Law, Political and Administration Sciences and Labor Sciences. He has taught at the UOC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universidad Miguel Hernández from Elche. Currently, he exclusively teaches at the International University of La Rioja in the areas of Labor Law and health and safety.
He is the author of many manuals, specialized articles and collective works in safety and occupational health. His research interests focus on the legal establishment of safety and health at work, the content of the preventive obligation and the consequences of its noncompliance.
