Trabajo social en la prevención de riesgos laborales de la empresa bananera Agrocoronel de la ciudad de Santa Rosa

Abstract

According to the International Labor Organization in 2018, 2.78 million workers die each year from work-related accidents and diseases. About 2.4 million of these deaths are caused by work-related illnesses, while just over 380,000 are the result of accidents. International Labor Organization [ILO], 2018. As can be seen in our days, there is an increase in accident indicators, highlighting inadequacies in the performance of occupational health and safety management systems, which indicates that there is a high index of occupational hazards at work. At the global level, that is, within the company, workers are exposed daily to occupational hazards that can affect the integrity of the worker. The present work aims to analyze the actions of social work in the prevention of occupational hazards, the research methodology is qualitative in nature, consists of the review and selection of scientific articles published in indexed journals and legal documents, linked to the problem presented "Occupational risks", based on what is stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, the legal aspects that support: the worker's labor rights (right to work, right to health) were investigated, as for the Labor Code it was determined the obligations that the employer has to safeguard the integrity of its collaborators in order to prevent occupational risks.