Mutual benefits between the quality management and the management of the prevention of occupational risks

Phone: 956 016 095. e-mail: juliamaria.gerez@uca.es.

(1) Health and safety in the work of Almería Centre.

Tecnológico-Junta Ministry of employment and development in Andalusia

Avda / station, 25. 04006 ALMERIA

Although this economic dimension remains one of the pillars, in recent decades is that you there is a change of mentality in the approaches of managers; It has been shown that the traditional system has at least one weak point: does not include the control of preventable losses.

Control of these losses, from the point of view of the management of the total quality (TQM), is based on identifying customer requirements, set out in the contract and obtain, at minimum cost, a product that meets the expectations of the client.

However, it is necessary to know the interests of all actors involved in the production process: client, employer, workers, Government, law, society, etc. In this sense, the quality and safety are dimensions that the company which are influenced by different agents. Learn about the interrelations between the different actors and the dimensions of the Organization will discover strengths and weaknesses and opportunities for the improvement of competitiveness.

Although the main affected is the worker, the company also is affected by accidents, that the State, through its three branches, establishes the rights, responsibilities and sanctions through legislation. As a result, a company with a high accident rate, bear avoidable losses caused by the sanctions in the field of occupational safety.

The advantages of the TQM are, among others: the orientation of the process and the product; the strengthening of the culture of quality of employees; and, as a result, the increase in the quality of the production and the decrease in the cost of quality.