Occupational risk prevention

Challenge for safety and health at work from the professional and technical secondary education in Panama

Abstract

Occupational risk is the possibility that a worker suffers an illness or an accident at work. The incidence of people who suffer occupational accidents and deaths has increased in recent years, affecting the labor process and the worker. The objective of the research is to validate an occupational risk prevention program (PRL), to train industrial high school teachers in skills and determine their efficiency. The research design is mixed quasi-experimental pretest - posttest with a type of documentary, descriptive, exploratory and explanatory study, with a health approach to prevention and health promotion, structured in two phases. A first, diagnostic, using an instrument for measuring knowledge and occupational risks through google form applied in the Professional and Technical Institutes in Panama and in Darién, the second phase, of intervention to implement, validate the program (PRL) and measure its efficiency, during the months of May and June 2021, in the same Institutes. The results allowed to obtain the labor risks due to safety conditions, consequences derived from the working conditions; of physical, chemical, biological or environmental conditions; the characteristics of work and work organization in high school teachers, it is possible to validate the PRL risk prevention program obtaining a significance level of 0.005; With this research, it was concluded that replicating the program in industrial high school teachers contributes to training, generating new skills, and with the data obtained will allow the development of a multisectoral policy that supports the promotion of prevention, reduction of accidents and occupational diseases.