[Spain]: [Welcome]: Spanish Network of Health and Safety at Work

Welcome to the Spanish Network of Health and Safety at Work. In this page you will find information about the composition of the National Network of Health and Safety at Work and their objectives, as well as a brief description of the contents.

What is the Spanish Network of Health and Safety at Work?

Who does administer it?

Which is their composition?

	Administrator		Gen. Admin. of the State		Autonomous Communities
	Employers' Org.		Workers' Org.		Other org.

What is it the Spanish Network of Health and Safety  at Work?

The Spanish Network (Red Española de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo - RedSST) is a network of Spanish providers of information who use Internet as a tool of dissemination.

The information is structured and  organized in the same way that the rest of the European National Networks  coordinated by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

Who does administer it?

The Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo INSHT (National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work) in the frame of their functions guarantees the coordination and  transmission of the information about Safety, Hygiene and Health at Work to all the interested ones.

The Prevention of Risks at Work Act (Available in English) provides that it acts as Centre of National Reference (Focal Point) to facilitate the information to national scale, as well as in connection with the Institutions of the European Union and, in particular, regarding the European Agency and its Network.

The INSHT acts as administrator of the National Network of Health and Safety at Work, in their double slope, as  National Reference;on the matter and as Focal Point of the European Agency.

Which is their composition?

In their first phase, the Network was constituted it, mainly by members of the parts and institutions represented in the National Commission of Health and Safety at Work, being enlarged in its second phase to entities present in Internet wich have something to contribute related with the subject.

Administrator of the Network

National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work (INSHT) (Available in English)

Members of the Network

General Administration of the State:

• Ministry of Public Administration.
• Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Ministry of Education and Science.
• Ministry of Public Works
  • Centre Jovellanos of the State Society of Salvage and Marine Safety (SASEMAR)
• Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade:
  • Under-Directorate General of Industrial Safety and Quality.
  • Directorate General of Energy Policy and Mines. Under-Directorate General for Mines.
• Ministry of the Interior
  • Directorate General of Civil Protection.
  • Directorate General of Traffic.
• Ministry of the Environment - Under-Secretariat for the Environment.
• Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs:
  • Directorate General for Public Health.
  • Carlos III Health Institute.
  • National School of Medicine at Work
• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs MTAS - Secretariat of State of the Social Security.
  • Navy Social Institute

Autonomous communities

Andalusia, Asturias, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile - La Mancha, Castile León, Catalonia , Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, Valencia, Basque

Employers' Org.

• National
  • Spanish Confederation of Employer´s Organizations (CEOE)
  • Spanish Confederation of the Small and Medium Enterprises (CEPYME)
• Other
  • Confederation of Andalusia Trade Employer

Workers' Org.

• National

  • CC.OO.

  • UGT
• Other:
  • Union of Nursing SATSE

Other organizations

Associations:

• AMAT (Association of Mutual Insurance Societies for Accidents at Work)
• APA (Association for the Prevention of Accidents)
• ANCED (National Association of Centres for Teaching at Distance)
• Catalan Association of Technicians in Prevention of Risks at Work
• Balear Society of Medicine at Work
• Castilian Society of Medicine and Safety at work
• Association of the Navarrese Industry - Cabinet of Prevention and Labour Health
• Spanish Association of the Organized Services for the Help in the face of  Emergencies
• ASEPAL, Asociation of equipments for individual protection manufacturers
• Spanish Society of Neurology - Group of Study of the Neurology of the Work

Universities:

• University of Alicante
• University of Barcelona. Office of Safety Health and Environment (OSSMA)
• University Carlos III from Madrid
• Polytechnic University of Valencia

Institutions:

• Office of Correspondence of the ILO in Madrid
• Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia

Mutual Insurance Societies for Accidents at Work and Professional Illnesses of the Social Issues:

• Ibermutuamur
• Mutua Universal