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Mutual insurance companies, the University of Valencia and the Cisal Union presented the report of occupational health 2001-2010
10/07/2013
on July 10, 2013
Union of mutual insurance companies, the Universitat de València and Cisal presented the report of occupational health 2001-2010. This document describes the context working partner, working conditions, damage to health, and the impact of the crisis, comparing the period 2001-2007 with the subsequent 2008-2010. Also outlined a series of recommendations with the aim of facilitating a way out of the crisis without the added cost of the deterioration of the health of the people who work.
The presentation of the study took place in the acts Hall of the Faculty of social sciences of the University of Valencia, with the participation of the Director of the Master in prevention of labor risks from the Universitat de València, Ana Mª García; the head of r & d of Union mutual, Javier Murcia, and the Coordinator of the report, Fernando Rodrigo, of the Centre for research in occupational health, Cisal.
According to the study, the population to protect policies on safety and health at work, at the end of the first decade of the century, amounted to 17 million workers, between employees and self-employed. It is the largest number of people in the history of Spain, despite the crisis that began in 2008.
Workers without any type of contract, that claim to work but without being members, significantly increased in the Decade, going from the 140,000 the first year, almost a million people in 2010.
During the continued consolidation of the incorporation of women into the labour market, due to the greater impact of the crisis on sectors highly masculinizados as construction, manufacturing and transport.
The dramatic rise in unemployment, from 9% in 2007 to 21% in 2010, affected, at first, temporary blue-collar workers, then to the indefinite, and finally, to the skilled manual. By sectors, the most affected was that of construction, but also the trade and industry, with the exception of the public sector - administration, health and education - until 2010.
Educational level was decisive when it comes to out of the labour market. There was a rapid expulsion of men with primary education while registered a sustained increase of employment, even after 2007, among workers with University studies, especially among women.
The collapse of the production model, therefore, increased the precariousness of employment, vulnerability of manual workers, employees with a temporary contract and young people, who constitute one of the groups most affected by the crisis.
