Psychosocial risks and work road safety centered the 1st meeting of Laboralia

Problems such as stress or anxiety arising from the work were subjects that focused the first day of Laboralia. Not in vain, the majority of Spanish workers ensures suffer problems of mental health because of the work. These problems are the second source of low - after musculoskeletal diseases - and, indeed, between 50% and 60% of absenteeism is related to work-related stress. This was stated Christine Loos, Director of development of the firm Psya assistance, which prompted a day in Laboralia under the title: ' the management of the psychosocial risks in the workplace: an obligation or a growing need for business '. Teresa García, Director of operations of Pysa assistance, added that "the cost to Governments absenteeism and hospitalization arising from psychosocial risks amounts to EUR 20 billion a year, according to the last figure of the European Agency for safety and health at work".

Act of inauguration of the 1st International Agora on occupational road safety.

On the other hand, was held in the framework of the first Agora international occupational road safety Laboralia. The President of Laboralia and director-general of labour, cooperatives and Social economy, Román Ceballos, opened the day highlighting the impact of preventive policies in improving the productivity of enterprises.

Laboralia also hosted other scientific journals, as the r & d day in prevention of occupational risks and New Business. And it was the scene of various demonstrations, as the height rescue carried out by the fire of the Town Hall of Valencia in the dome of the Valencia trade fair events center or the mock controlled microvoladura of materials stone using a new pyrotechnic material that made AIDICO.