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In two months the Official Mexican Standard NOM 035 will come into force . It talks about psychosocial risk factors at work. Its implementation will be gradual, and by 2020 it must be 100% complied with.
According to Joaquín Apolonio Ávila, deputy director of Evaluation of the General Directorate of Safety and Health at Work, for some companies this year it will only be mandatory to comply with preventive measures.
However, in 2020, companies will be required to conduct questionnaires to identify psychosocial risk factors that will help evaluate the organizational environment of the workplace.
In the first stage of implementation, workers France Mobile Number List who are in a traumatic situation must be detected and channeled to the medical area.
According to the official from the Ministry of Labor, “the questionnaires would be coming into force until October 23, 2020, as well as the obligations related to the intervention program, correction actions, and the practice of medical examinations.”
In turn, Apolonio Ávila says that the standard does not impose specific actions to prevent psychosocial risks and improve the organizational environment; each workplace will have the freedom to take the measures that it considers could give it the best results.
According to NOM 035, the general obligations for all companies are:
Design of internal policies to prevent psychosocial risk factors and workplace violence.
Promotion of a favorable organizational environment.
Mechanisms for receiving complaints.
Detection and medical referral of workers exposed to a traumatic event.
Dissemination of occupational health policies among workers.
Each provision is preventive in nature. In companies where there are between 16 and 50 employees, questionnaires must be applied and for those with more than 50 employees, compliance with the standard will be mandatory.
For Jesús Gutiérrez Siles, coordinator of the Mexican Program for Emotional Well-being at Work, "before thinking about applying questionnaires, workers must first be made aware of the underlying reasons for the new official provisions."
In conversation with El Economista, Gutiérrez Siles says: «if the collaborator does not know what it is for, he will resist and will not answer the truth, then the workplaces will have a photograph that does not correspond to reality. I suggest that this year be about raising awareness among workers so that they have the necessary knowledge, and understand what benefits they have if they respond sincerely.”
For her part, Annel Lozano, deputy director of Be Well strategy at Lockton México, says that through the questionnaires the aim is to obtain reliable information from collaborators, therefore an “assertive communication campaign will be necessary to give confidence to workers. , and they are sure that their information will be handled with the data privacy that it deserves and with the confidentiality that the regulations require.
According to Joaquín Apolonio Ávila, deputy director of Evaluation of the General Directorate of Safety and Health at Work, for some companies this year it will only be mandatory to comply with preventive measures.
However, in 2020, companies will be required to conduct questionnaires to identify psychosocial risk factors that will help evaluate the organizational environment of the workplace.
In the first stage of implementation, workers France Mobile Number List who are in a traumatic situation must be detected and channeled to the medical area.
According to the official from the Ministry of Labor, “the questionnaires would be coming into force until October 23, 2020, as well as the obligations related to the intervention program, correction actions, and the practice of medical examinations.”
In turn, Apolonio Ávila says that the standard does not impose specific actions to prevent psychosocial risks and improve the organizational environment; each workplace will have the freedom to take the measures that it considers could give it the best results.
According to NOM 035, the general obligations for all companies are:
Design of internal policies to prevent psychosocial risk factors and workplace violence.
Promotion of a favorable organizational environment.
Mechanisms for receiving complaints.
Detection and medical referral of workers exposed to a traumatic event.
Dissemination of occupational health policies among workers.
Each provision is preventive in nature. In companies where there are between 16 and 50 employees, questionnaires must be applied and for those with more than 50 employees, compliance with the standard will be mandatory.
For Jesús Gutiérrez Siles, coordinator of the Mexican Program for Emotional Well-being at Work, "before thinking about applying questionnaires, workers must first be made aware of the underlying reasons for the new official provisions."
In conversation with El Economista, Gutiérrez Siles says: «if the collaborator does not know what it is for, he will resist and will not answer the truth, then the workplaces will have a photograph that does not correspond to reality. I suggest that this year be about raising awareness among workers so that they have the necessary knowledge, and understand what benefits they have if they respond sincerely.”
For her part, Annel Lozano, deputy director of Be Well strategy at Lockton México, says that through the questionnaires the aim is to obtain reliable information from collaborators, therefore an “assertive communication campaign will be necessary to give confidence to workers. , and they are sure that their information will be handled with the data privacy that it deserves and with the confidentiality that the regulations require.