Business Workshop equipment After-sales service Servi-Velyen Innovation and Technology News and Updates Main > Time for Safety: demand, ... > TECHNICAL INFORMATION > CONEPA CONEPA celebrates the World Day for the Prevention of CONEPA CONEPA celebrates World Occupational Risk Prevention Day advocating for a safer workshop, thank you for your support Taking advantage of the celebration of World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Conepa will advocate for a safer workshop by sending informative circulars to the associates of its 16 entities, recalling the importance of carrying out adequate prevention of occupational risks to avoid accidents and occupational diseases. Conepa, the Spanish Federation of Professional Automotive Entrepreneurs, wants to remind all the workshops associated with its 16 entities of the importance of carrying out an adequate prevention of occupational risks to avoid accidents and occupational diseases among the members of its workforce. To this end, informative communications will be sent throughout the day through circulars and bulletins that will reach some 10,000 companies in the sector. CONEPA's communications inform about the legal framework of Law 31/1995, of November 8, on the Prevention of Occupational Risks, which establishes the right of workers to effective protection in terms of occupational health and safety. The basic principles of said Law are: Avoid risks, evaluate risks that cannot be avoided, combat risks at their source, adapt the work to the characteristics of the person, take into account the evolution of the technique, substitute the dangerous for what involves little or no danger, plan prevention, adopt measures that put collective protection before individual protection, give the proper instructions to workers, Carrying out correct prevention work in workshops is a necessary task that redounds to the safety and well-being of the workers themselves. For this, the Prevention Services Regulation establishes four modalities by which the employer can choose to comply with the prevention duty: personally assuming such activity, appointing one or more workers to carry it out, constituting its own prevention service or by resorting to an external prevention service. In this way, the employer must verify that the preventive organization model chosen for his company conforms to the law, depending on its size and activity, as well as whether the chosen modality meets the required requirements. As a reminder, Conepa present a series of basic prevention rules that must be taken into account in workshops: efficient general ventilation systems; localized extraction systems equipped with filters adapted to the activity; means of detection, alarm, evacuation and extinction of fires; separate storage of flammable chemicals; guards and safety devices on machinery and equipment; compliance with regulations for the use of machinery, equipment and chemical products; work instructions for critical tasks and use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE); adequate signaling of areas of passage or with risk of falling (pits, stairs, etc); and training of workers in work rules and instructions. Asimismo, se recuerda la necesidad de realizar inspecciones periódicas de partes críticas de instalaciones, máquina y equipos. Mantenimiento preventivo de medios mecánicos de elevación y transporte de cargas (elevadores de vehículos); y minimizar el riesgo eléctrico seguiendo durante el mantenimiento las instrucciones del fabricante del vehículo; emplear herramientas y equipos adecuados para el trabajo con elementos eléctricos y libres de grasas, aceites y otras sustancias deslizantes; evitar manipular las partes eléctricas del vehículo en caso de lluvia o humedad; y si es imprescindible, trabajar aumentando la resistencia del cuerpo al paso de la electricidad (guantes dieléctricos, botas aislantes, etc). Parque Ind. Ciudad de Carlet, Sector-S4. Camino del Carrasqueral, 6. 46240 Carlet (Valencia). ESPAÑA · Telf (+34) 96 254 30 73 · Situación · Contacto · Zona Restringida