The Arequipa region is positioned as the second nationwide with the greatest number of labor accidents notified before the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE).
In 2024, closed with 3,535 reports To the MTPE work accident system, of this figure, 3,490 were registered as occupational accidents, another 19 with fatal accidents (loss of life) and 26 as dangerous incidents. The most of these accidents in the mining, construction and manufacturing sector.
Until July of this year, there was a considerable reduction, despite this, the region continues to be the second with the highest accident registration at worknotifying one thousand 706 cases, with 7 dangerous incidents, 9 fatal accidents and 1,689 accidents at work.
Obligations
From the National Superintendence of Labor Supervision (Sunafil) they pointed out that the protocol to follow for the attention of occupational accidents is report this fact and that the person is attended in one of the clinics that coverage the complementary risk of risk work (SCTR).
It is also warned that employers must take into account health conditions of their workers At the time of assigning a function, such as column problems that prevents you from loading weight, of not taking into account these cases would correspond to an infraction in work safety, this topic of prevention would avoid future accidents.
Another point to keep in mind is that During the inspections by Sunafil, in some cases information is omitted to the inspector, which configures as an infraction to the work, being of a very serious nature and being able to be sanctioned with up to 200 UIT.
In case of not being attended by an accident, the workers can make the complaint to Sunafil, Through his media with the respective evidence, after which an inspector in 30 business days initiates the acts of inspection to the company.
FORMALITY
The specialist Víctor Lavalle said that in Arequipathe sectors where the largest number of accidents are recorded are Mining sector, construction and manufacturinghowever, these records in the MTPE are referred to the formal scope.
“On the construction and mining side, let’s say there could be somewhat more severe accidents because of the nature of the activity, in the case of manufacturing there is a greater number of accidents, but of less severity,”he said.
He also indicated that certain situations cannot be considered as accidents at work, such as sports activities within the company, since the SCTR does not cover these incidents. However, in the case of Death AFP pension is activated For family members, but not from the SCTR policy.
The specialist said that companies should not only focus on coverage, but also on Identify the risk factorwith monitoring training, work on prevention culture, “The challenge you have is that workers do not see security as an additional activity to their work functions, but are intrinsic to their functions”he said.
Among the most common accidents are height, level accidents, traffic accidents within the workplace, “The return to work journeys would be common accidents, traffic accidents during the work day”Lavalle said.
