The medical centres on the Bosch i Alsina wharf and the WTC Barcelona building offer a wide range of healthcare and social options to 1,431 people, according to the latest census, including active staff from Barcelona Port Authority (552) and their families (459 beneficiaries); retired workers (214) and their families (102) and 104 users of the group consisting of temporary workers, widows, orphans and others.
The procedures and protocols for unifying guidelines for the organisation's healthcare and professional medicine practitioners are based on the Catalan Health Plan and the new health monitoring guidelines agreed by the workers' representatives. Furthermore, the protocol from the Spanish Organic Law on Data Protection adapted to medical services provides an important boost, as it ensures that all highly sensitive data concerning health are safeguarded.
This year we continued to roll out informative and educational activities about healthy habits using the following tools:
• the campaign to give up smoking with pharmacological means, in collaboration with the Atlantida health care plan. The study conducted throughout the year confirms that smoking among workers is 3.42% lower than the average for Catalonia as a whole;
• work also continued to detect and prevent colon cancer and analytical control for the prevention of prostate cancer among high-risk individuals;
• publications on the corporate Intranet providing basic first aid tips;
• and prevention of musculoskeletal problems of the back, with a publication entitled "Back School" on the Intranet and workshops to demonstrate live the most suitable positions and stretching.
Health monitoring entailed performing 342 medical examinations on staff members: 292 on permanent employees (representing 55.20% of the total workforce) and 50 on temporary workers (9.45% of the average annual workforce).
The Prevention Service organised and participated in the 14th Port Seminar on Prevention of Occupational Risks, promoted by the Working Group on Prevention under the Steering Council for Promotion of the Port Community and FREMAP Health and Safety, held in cooperation with the APB's Corporate Social Responsibility service. At the closing ceremony of the event, Josep Ginesta, secretary general for Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Catalan Government encouraged the social partners and professional risk prevention experts to work together to design specific actions to decisively address the correlation between increased activity and more work accidents.
The work of the Steering Council’s Sub-Working Group on Health Emergencies - involving the SEM (Medical Emergencies System), CILSA, the FREMAP Prevention Service, Port Police and TEPSA - and the good joint work and coordination of their services meant that almost all emergency health assistance cases could be resolved in five minutes or under.
This year the corporate website published the map with the location of the automated external defibrillators located in the port area, both those in private companies and those installed by the Port. With this action, we can now say that the Port of Barcelona is a cardio-protected site.
This year Port staff suffered a total of 42 accidents, all of them minor, 18 of which led to sick leave. The total incidence rate, i.e. the total number of accidents with and without sick leave in relation to the number of employees stood at 7.8%.
Also, we maintained our OHSAS 18001 certification on prevention of occupational hazards, which is the international quality standard in prevention management within companies.
The medical centres on the Bosch i Alsina wharf and the WTC Barcelona building offer a wide range of healthcare and social options to 1,431 people, according to the latest census, including active staff from Barcelona Port Authority (552) and their families (459 beneficiaries); retired workers (214) and their families (102) and 104 users of the group consisting of temporary workers, widows, orphans and others.
The procedures and protocols for unifying guidelines for the organisation's healthcare and professional medicine practitioners are based on the Catalan Health Plan and the new health monitoring guidelines agreed by the workers' representatives. Furthermore, the protocol from the Spanish Organic Law on Data Protection adapted to medical services provides an important boost, as it ensures that all highly sensitive data concerning health are safeguarded.
This year we continued to roll out informative and educational activities about healthy habits using the following tools:
• the campaign to give up smoking with pharmacological means, in collaboration with the Atlantida health care plan. The study conducted throughout the year confirms that smoking among workers is 3.42% lower than the average for Catalonia as a whole;
• work also continued to detect and prevent colon cancer and analytical control for the prevention of prostate cancer among high-risk individuals;
• publications on the corporate Intranet providing basic first aid tips;
• and prevention of musculoskeletal problems of the back, with a publication entitled "Back School" on the Intranet and workshops to demonstrate live the most suitable positions and stretching.
Health monitoring entailed performing 342 medical examinations on staff members: 292 on permanent employees (representing 55.20% of the total workforce) and 50 on temporary workers (9.45% of the average annual workforce).
The Prevention Service organised and participated in the 14th Port Seminar on Prevention of Occupational Risks, promoted by the Working Group on Prevention under the Steering Council for Promotion of the Port Community and FREMAP Health and Safety, held in cooperation with the APB's Corporate Social Responsibility service. At the closing ceremony of the event, Josep Ginesta, secretary general for Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Catalan Government encouraged the social partners and professional risk prevention experts to work together to design specific actions to decisively address the correlation between increased activity and more work accidents.
The work of the Steering Council’s Sub-Working Group on Health Emergencies - involving the SEM (Medical Emergencies System), CILSA, the FREMAP Prevention Service, Port Police and TEPSA - and the good joint work and coordination of their services meant that almost all emergency health assistance cases could be resolved in five minutes or under.
This year the corporate website published the map with the location of the automated external defibrillators located in the port area, both those in private companies and those installed by the Port. With this action, we can now say that the Port of Barcelona is a cardio-protected site.
This year Port staff suffered a total of 42 accidents, all of them minor, 18 of which led to sick leave. The total incidence rate, i.e. the total number of accidents with and without sick leave in relation to the number of employees stood at 7.8%.
Also, we maintained our OHSAS 18001 certification on prevention of occupational hazards, which is the international quality standard in prevention management within companies.