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In a seminar held in Madrid on “On-the-job road safety”
In 2010,
35% of deaths
on the job involved
trafic accidents while on
the job.
Fundación Española para la Seguridad Vial
(The Spanish Foundation for Road Safe-
ty, Spanish acronym FESVIAL), the Pons
Foundation; the European Commission
Automobile Foundation, and the Founda-
tion for the Prevention of Occupational Ha-
zards, in collaboration with the Department
of Education and Employment of the Ma-
drid Autonomous Community, sponsored a
seminar in Madrid on “ On the Job Road
Safety”.
The objective of the seminar was to analyze
the social, personal, and economic conse-
quences of on-the-job road accidents and
to encourage safe mobility practices in or-
der to reduce and prevent road accidents
while on the job.
The event was inaugurated by María del
Mar Alarcón of the IRSHT. The presen-
tations and communications were orga-
nized around three working groups with
the participation of Marta Zimmerman,
the director of the Research and Informa-
tion Department of the Institute for On the
Job Safety and Health; Jorge Travesero,
Job Inspector; and representatives of the
UGT and CCOO trade unions as well as
the heads of Occupational Safety of com-
panies such as Chep and Feu Vert who
shared the table with Juan Carlos Sáez
de Rus, corporate director of occupational
safety and health at FCC who described
the company’s Strategic Safety and Health
Strategic Plan.
During the seminar, the on-the-job traffc
accident fgures were announced. The
speakers, besides mentioning the serious
consequences of traffc accidents, also
stressed the importance of the involvement
of companies, employees, public adminis-
trations and institutions and the entire com-
munity and described the proposals and
measures that have been carried out.
Mar Cogollos, the director of AESLEME;
FCC
unveils its
Strategic Road Safety Plan
2010-2015
At the site, on the right, Juan Carlos Saez de Rus, corporate director of the FCC Group Occupatio-
nal Safety and Health Department
Javier Llamazares, the director general of
FESVIAL, and Pere Navarro, the director
general of the Traffc Department gave the
closing speeches, all of whom mentioned
road traffc statistics, 2,478 traffc related
deaths last year, and highlighted the impor-
tance of Road Safety training at companies.
Information on the seminar and the FCC
Strategic Road Safety Plan are available at
the Road Safety portal which can be acces-
sed through the prevention page or through
the following link:
http://fccnet/sites/rrhh/servprevman/seg-
vial/default.aspx
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