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20 minutes of exercises
The daily routine of employees changed
one year ago. Each morning, all workers
from this department participate in this ini-
tiative and perform warm-up exercises, led
by a monitor, every morning. They work on
all parts of the body, particularly those areas
that could be overloaded because of work.
Gonzalo Conde, the chairman of the
Company’s Safety and Health Committee
told us that the idea behind this initiative
came up at the committee due to the high
rate of job-related sick leave. The goal is to
improve worker’s safety and health, prevent
injuries at work, and reduce the rate of ab-
senteeism. After several meetings, the Sa-
fety and Health Committee came up with
the idea for these activities and submitted
the proposal to the Company.
Awareness-building meetings
FCC approved the initiative and jointly
with the accident insurance company de-
cided which exercises were going to be
performed and the training program for
colleagues who would be monitoring the
warm-up exercise sessions. All employees
attended the awareness-building discus-
sions on torso-lumbar area injuries and
brochures were distributed providing infor-
mation on how our backs function and on
the different types of exercises a stretches
to prevent certain types of injuries.
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