Laboralia reaches its sixth edition betting on new business opportunities

Under the slogan 'A safe approach, more opportunities', Laboralia brings together professionals of the sector in the prevention of occupational hazards in order to pool knowledge, performances and decisive efforts to combat workplace accidents and reduce the incidence of accidents rates. After his excellent track record in previous editions it has become the largest national exhibition in the field of prevention of occupational risks.

This year, visitors who come to the fair will also visit the three developments that presents this year with respect to previous editions; expansion through bilateral meetings of foreign promotion; R & d to develop innovative solutions in prevention of occupational hazards; new opportunities for the sector; and road safety to offer a more comprehensive perspective of prevention

Organized by Feria Valencia, with the support of the Conselleria D'economia, finance i Ocupació de la Generalitat Valenciana, Laboralia 2011 for its internationalization. Thus, during the celebration of this event, is intended to consolidate the fair at the international level thanks to the collaboration of the Valencian Generalitat through the Valencian Institute of export (IVEX). With your help, enhance the actions of foreign promotion and internationalization of Spanish brands and improve the competitiveness of the business, carrying out bilateral meetings aimed to optimize your positioning in foreign markets considered to be of interest to the sector in the prevention of occupational hazards.

Complementary activities

Also, for this Edition, since the fair have been organized various professional meetings so that the thousands of visitors to move to the Fairgrounds, as well as the latest news on prevention to attend multiple conferences, congresses and demonstrations that occur during Laboralia. These activities are an opportunity to bring together knowledge, actions and efforts with the objective of reducing workplace accidents.

The Centre of Valencia trade fair events held on 3 and 4 may I Agora international of road safety, organized by the Spanish Foundation for road safety, Fesvial. The meeting 'of business mobility to the road safety' will look for solutions to the problem of the impact that have work-related accidents in the occupational accident.

On the other hand, on 3 and 4 may the Spanish platform for Industrial safety and technological institutes organized the I r & d day 'New business opportunities' in labour prevention. This workshop will explain how to submit projects in micro, large companies and corporations, as well as case studies. In addition will be also presented innovation applications and trials to EPI and EPC.

On May 4 for their part also welcomes international security forum in the construction. In this forum will be given to the latest news on European and international level in relation to the means of protection and work teams to develop work in height, in optimal conditions of safety and health.

And other activities to which may be present visitors include the Congress (I) of the official technical school in prevention of occupational risks; a day of labour relations organized by Aedipe; a day of introduction of systems for the collective protection of Aneip enterprises; a day of suppliers of coordinators for safety and health in the construction of the hand of ECSYS; a day of the Association Spanish Heads of procurement created by Aerce; and the day of presentation RFOS, of Osalan, among others.

The technological Institute of furniture, wood, packaging and related, Aidima, has a shared stand with the Institute of construction, Aidico, to present the laboratory of the fire, offering solutions to behavior that have materials fire resistance and reaction refers. Everything according to law and existing regulations.

In this sense, Laboralia is an excellent projector to publicise the possibilities that the companies have in relation to the resistance and reaction to fire tests and to further publicize the technical center of fire that occurred in the last edition of Laboralia.

Asbestos, a latent danger

Magma environmental management, with 35 years of experience in the recycling of waste and carries out work with asbestos, industrial scrap, works in height, installation of roofing and unique facades. An experience that translates into Laboralia where it presents a report of hygienic measurements of asbestos and good practices of work with this material to prevent exposure to asbestos is becoming a risk to the health of workers than by their profession from being exposed to this mineral.

Ford, with road safety

The car firm comes a year to Laboralia, which has been present since the first edition showing the planning and implementation of the various programmes on prevention of occupational hazards has developed.

On this occasion Ford Spain presents its occupational road safety programme in connection with the carriage of goods. In close collaboration with the Labour Inspectorate, Ford has developed and implemented a management process for carriers, ranging from the activity that takes place at the factory until that takes place during the carriage of goods by road.

Laboralia has, once again, with the presence of the Association for the prevention of accidents, APA, that on this occasion he presents his latest project: Sugest, a platform aimed at prevention services, and companies in general, which brings together document management, e-learning, electronic billing, digital signature, messaging, coordination of activities, etc.

In addition, APA also displays the services available: regular and non-recurrent publications and its publishing catalogue which brings together over 100 titles on occupational risk prevention. It will also offer its technical consulting, appraisals, and regulatory audits, as well as his laboratory of analytical Industrial Hygiene (LHIA).

In the same vein, Umivale prevention presents its system for the self-management of the PRL and its training e-learning platform. Prevention alien, Umivale prevention, service has accreditation throughout the national territory in four preventive disciplines and their objective is the reduction of absenteeism for health through effective prevention reasons. And this sixth edition presents two of the projects we have worked in the past few months. On the one hand, their system of e-learning training that allows employees to take distance. On the other hand, self-management provides monitoring, in real time, the planning of medical examinations of employees while it allows you to access and download, at any time, all generated reports, as well as inform the technical of Umivale prevention assigned to the company of any changes relating to the conditions of contract.

Winton Ibérica, SME dedicated from 1977 to the environmental health sector, carries out treatments for the prevention and control of Legionella through the implementation and monitoring of services such as: cleaning and disinfection of networking and equipment, maintenance, analytical, documentation according to existing regulations and audits of susceptibility to risk.

During the three days Laboralia, the firm presents its 'express Legionella' treatments and sectoral preventive training. The treatment for 'Legionella express' is a valuation in-situ of the global index (I.G.), followed by treatment associated with this empirical reference to develop the service less than 3 hours for low-risk facilities and less than 4 for high risk facilities. For this assessment, it took 7 days with traditional methods.

Biplax, company specialized in the commercialization of ergonomic chairs for offices, participates once again in Laboralia to present its latest in ergonomic furniture. If in the Edition previous Biplax presented at the stand which has a few anatomical seats to reduce the pressure in the buttocks in this fair, avoiding diverted positions. In this Sixth Edition aims to surprise again with products adapted to the needs of each worker and thus avoid bad posture.

The firm, which makes chairs to measure depending on the need of the customer and special products for those works of 24 hours, is a pioneer in research and manufacture of products for the prevention of lipoatrophy, disease caused as a result of multiple factors as the ergonomics of the worker in his postthe conductivity of the materials, the control over the system of air conditioning, furniture or moisture among others.

Their products are subjected to different ergonomic tests in specialised laboratories with the aim of creating a safe, comfortable and simple product and are in accordance with the needs of both national and international market. Biplax manufactures their chairs with the intention of correcting those incorrect postures that are committed to sit.

All products are certified by Cidemco and ergonomic corresponding certificates. Their chairs are also ecological and customers are able to compensate for the CO₂ emitted in manufacturing and thereby contributing to respect for the environment.

The Hall is home to the presentation of Prevengos 11

Prevengos is a software management and specific for the prevention of occupational hazards, which includes the administrative management, the safety at work, industrial hygiene, ergonomics and occupational medicine. It is also applicable to others, own, joint prevention services or educational institutions.

This software has a management team and human young as well as experienced, very involved in the technology for continuous it improvement. For this reason, Laboralia 2011 presents version Prevengos 11, adapted to the new regulation.