The business SST ASESORES, a Peruvian company that provides comprehensive consulting services, innovative solutions and training in occupational safety and health, reports that in 2020 and 2021, Sunafil imposed a total of 1,009 and 2,670 fines to companies at the national level, as a result of non-compliance with labor safety and health regulations in the job.
Between 2020 and last year, there has been an increase of 1,661 sanctions, which represents a growth of almost 264%.
Luigi Prado, general manager of SST ASESORES, explains that The main reason for registering these sanctions is clearly due to non-compliance with Law No. 29783-Law on safety and health at work and its regulations-which aims to promote a culture of occupational risk prevention in the country.
“It is important that, through dialogue and participation, between employers, the state, workers and their union organizations comply with the promotion, dissemination and compliance with the standard,” he says.
Likewise, the spokesman added that these sanctions are given for three fundamental aspects. Organizations and their managers are not aware of the existence of an occupational health and safety law, even though it is regulated and published. Similarly, they only implement it when another company requires it in the event that they have to work together. In addition, Sunafil has a very weak control system, therefore, it does not reach all companies and if it does, it only controls large corporations.
Among the most frequent fines imposed by Sunafil in the last two years, they have been for management system, where organizations have not complied with the requirements in establishing policies, plans and programs for safety and health at work. Not establishing an occupational health and safety committee, which is for companies with 20 or more workers, and not electing a supervisor for companies with less than 20 employees.
Also, not having with an adequate hazard identification and risk assessment matrix, has been a cause for penalty. In short, not having a tool that allows workers to know the dangers to which they are exposed in their activities, the risks and/or events that could occur, and not having adequate control measures that prevent the event or damage occurs.
Also, by law the company has to carry out At least 4 training sessions a year for your workers with information on safety and health at work. Not scheduling the training, the non-participation of the workers and not knowing how to execute or apply this information has been reason for a fine.
Finally, for SST ASESORES, it is expected that by 2022, the fines will be considerably reduced, since as a result of the sanctions imposed by Sunafil, in recent years, greater awareness has been generated of how important it is for workers to work in safe and secure conditions. and how fundamental it is to invest in safety and health issues at work.
