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Well-being
FCC,
certified as a
healthy company
The Cataluña II Offices of FCC Medio Am-
biente has become the first company its
sector to be awarded the Healthy Company
by the Asociación Española de Normaliza-
ción y Certificación (the Spanish Associa-
tion for Standardisation and Certification,
AENOR, Spanish acronym). This recog-
nition was collected by Jesús Padullés
Caba, the director of this branch office, in
a seminar held at AENOR’s headquarters.
Coinciding with this event, the first practical
experiences in this field were presented.
This certification, pursuant to the AENOR
Healthy Company model, certifies that Ca-
taluña II has implemented a management
system that promotes and protects emplo-
yees’ safety, health, and well-being and the
sustainability of the work environment.
A pioneer model in the world, it is based on
World Health Organization (WHO) criteria
and on an ongoing improvement methodo-
logy which considers health as the com-
plete state of physical, mental, and social
well-being, and which main objective is to
promote healthy work environments.
Regardless of the professional sector and
the size of the organization, the aim of this
model is to reduce the rate of accidents
and absenteeism, improve the rates of
productivity, competitiveness, and sustai-
nability of companies, and promote a good
quality of life for the community in general
by improving the health and well-being of
employees.
FCC, a pioneer
Companies must comply with the Healthy
Company model and participate in an audit
process in order to be awarded this certi-
ficate. To this end, they must identify the
specific risk factors that have an impact
on the work surroundings in order to eli-
minate, reduce, and control such factors
subsequently. Some of typical examples
contemplated in this model include promo-
ting healthy eating habits, encouraging the
practice of sports at work, or healthy lifes-
tyles even outside working hours.
Published in Spanish and English, the sys-
tem is the work of AENOR with the colla-
boration of the European Health and Social
Welfare Institute (the collaborating WHO
centre in Spain) and FREMAP, the Preven-
tion Company, to address the demand of
a large number of leading companies who
are working on this issue in which FCC is
a pioneer.