Plan de mejoramiento para la gestión de los riesgos generados por las exigencias del Coronavirus (COVID-19) en la empresa SAESCO Ingeniería S.A.S

Abstract

The virus is known as Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and is defined as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The infectious disease that causes it is called COVID-19. Both the virus and the disease were unknown before the first case of a person was known in Wuhan (China) in December 2019. (PAHO, 2020, p. 1) In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease a pandemic since cases of people infected by the virus began to appear in the world. In Colombia and in response to the recommendations issued by the WHO, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection through the issuance of Resolution No. 385 of March 12, 2020 declared the start of the health emergency. Since the beginning of the pandemic and until March 28, 2021, in the Department of Meta the rate of cases of people infected by COVID-19 was 4,131 per 100,000 inhabitants. (Ministry of Health, 2021, p. 1). This is a figure that alerted the local authorities of the Department due to its progressive increase and the absence of vaccines to safeguard the life of the entire population. Taking into account the above, it is vitally important to design an improvement plan for the company that is the object of this consultancy that allows, through the identification of dangers and risk assessment, to define the necessary preventive controls necessary to mitigate the spread of the virus. and thus be able to counteract the number of infections by protecting and safeguarding the health of workers and other interested parties to the organization, avoiding suffering and deaths.