La cultura organizacional como movilizador de la gestión en Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo

Abstract

The present document was established with the purpose of explore the problem found in the companies in Colombia related with the adoption of organizational cultural models that integrate the care of people and the management in Security and Health at work like a fundamental element, this has an impact in high prevalence rates of occupational disease and work accidents; in this reason was considered as an general objective, defined as a project: “Formulate a cultural model that be aligned with the legal requirements in safety and health at work “SST” and others methodologies with international recognition for the occupational risk management, that allow decrease the occurrence of injuries and disease in the workers in the PYMES of manufacturing sector in Colombia”. As a method was defined a qualitative study of the legal requirements in security and health in Colombia, good practices recognized internationally for the SST management and organizational cultural models, searching as result the formulation of a cultural model that integrates these elements and that be easy adoption for the companies PYME in the country and permits improvement the management of the companies with positive impacts in the rates of occupational accidents and diseases.