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Special recognition for the project on risk mitigation with virtual reality and psychosocial intervention. Recipients of the award: Carlos Cortes Lopez, Vicepresidente de QHSSE&T (Medio Ambiente, Salud y Seguridad, y Training), Luseleni Cordero Niño, Directora QHSE (Medio Ambiente, Salud y Seguridad) and Carlos Heredia Ferreira, Vicepresidente de Promoción y Prevención de POSITIVA Compañía de Seguros S.A.

Special recognition for the safety attachments project for a mixer truck. Recipient of the award: David Otero, Vicepresidente Seguros Bolívar.

Special recognition for its leadership and security model. Recipient of the award: Elkin Rey Veloza, Líder de Seguridad y Riesgos

Special recognition for the prevention of mechanical risks. Recipient of the award: Miguel Angel Franco, Coordinador de Seguridad, Salud Ocupacional y Medioambiente.

Special recognition for the 4D Healthy Living Strategy. Recipients of the award: Andrea Cáceres, Coronel y Gerente de Talento Humano.

Special recognition for its model of cultural transformation in security. Recipients of the award: Luis Carlos Alfonso Ramírez Gutierrez, Director de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo and Sonia Patricia Salazar, Vicepresidenta de Recursos Humanos

Special recognition for its management in Occupational Health and Safety. Recipient of the award: Xavier Iraegui Navarro, Director de Operaciones.

Special recognition for its cultural and behavioural policy. Recipients of the award: Diana Remolina, Presidenta del Consejo Superior de la Judicatura and Naslly Ramos, Directora Ejecutiva de Administración Judicial.

Special recognition for its innovation programme in occupational safety. Recipient of the award: Camilo Torres Vega, Director de Salud, Seguridad, Medio Ambiente y Calidad de Enel.

Special recognition for her driving assistant project. Recipient of the award: Ingrid Marcela Gomez Directora HSEQ of Coltanques SAS

Special recognition for its happiness and wellbeing centre. Recipient of the award: Andrea Ortega Bechara, Vicerrectora de Innovación y Desarrollo.

Special recognition for its model of care for citizen Lili. Recipient of the award:Marta Bermúdez Vallecilla, Jefa del Servicio de Oftalmología en Fundación Valle del Lili.

Professional recognition for leadership in occupational risk prevention. Recipient of the award: Dr. Mohammed Azman Aziz Mohammed.CEO of Perkeso and President of the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

Professional recognition for his management and promotion of wellbeing in the company. Recipient of the award: Franco Dutto. Human Resources and ESG Advisor, Senior Executive Officer at Tsubaki Nakashima.

• Country: Germany

Awarded for its strong international commitment, organising exchanges during the A+A Congress about novel topics such as Vision Zero, safe and health supply chains or digitalisation for prevention. Recipient of the award: Christian Felten, Director of BASI.

Dr Christian Felten: ‘We will continue to expand this collaboration with the help of the ORP Foundation – the award is further motivation for Basi on this path.

• Country: Spain

Recognised for its implementation, this renowned Spanish fashion brand has implemented actions aimed at caring for the health of its employees and for this MANGO has decidedly opted for the on-site coverage of health monitoring services. Receiving the award: Helena Mora, Health and Safety Director, and Cristina Tarta, Health and Safety Specialist.

• Country: Denmark

Awarded for its successful management of work-related stress and improvement of mental health and well-being, as well as its readiness to share these both at the national and international level. Recipient of the award: Thomas Heilskov-Hansen, Head of Health at Novo Nordisk.

• Country: Spain

External Prevention Service that was awarded for its long history and intense commitment to the promotion of Health and Safety at Work. Receiving the award: Paco Lari Carrillo, CEO of MES SALUT I TREBALL.

• Country: France

For the actions carried out to improve OSH management. Recipient of the award: José Manuel Roldón, head of EHS at the Santa Perpètua industrial centre (Barcelona).

• Country: Hong Kong

Awarded for its leadership in promoting safety, health and well-being in Hong Kong through innovative prevention programmes, and its active role in in promoting the Vision Zero mind-set globally. Recipient of the award: Bonnie Yau, Executive Director of OSHC.

• Country: Spain

Awarded for its occupational risk prevention policies, which range from personnel selection to emergency management, including continuous safety training and the promotion of healthy habits among workers. Receiving the award: Dr. Lucas Riquelme, Director of Occupational Health and Safety.

• Country: Switzerland
• Sector of activity: Health and Safety at Work

In acknowledgement of its commitment to building safe and healthy global supply chains and to achieving real improvements in the health and safety of some of the most vulnerable groups of workers.

First launched in 2015, The Vision Zero Fund (VZF) is an initiative of the G7 countries, and more recently received the backing of the G20. Its principal objective is to increase public and private collective action to promote and improve tangible occupational safety and health (OSH) prevention activities in low and middle-income countries. The VZF is a multidonor trust fund that is administered by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Energy and infrastructure

The next award for Special Recognition for merit in Management is granted to ACCIONA INFRAESTRUCTURAS for its contribution to evidence-based prevention.

ACCIONA, S. A. is a multinational company that undertakes the development and management of infrastructures -water, concessions, construction and services- and renewable energies. It has operations in 65 countries on all five continents and is listed on the IBEX 35.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Petroleum and gas

Special Recognition for Merit in Business Management is awarded to INDEPENDENCE DRILLING for its human performance engineering program in its Workover teams.

Independence Drilling is a Colombian company with a track record of over 40 years of experience. It provides integral services for drilling, maintenance and overhauling of oil and gas wells. Its operations proceed on the basis of the pillars of sustainability, innovation, excellence and ethics, as well as operational discipline, safety behavior and risk management.

• Country: Australia
• Sector of activity: Labor Inspection

Special Distinction Award to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LABOUR INSPECTION (IALI) in recognition of its role as the leading professional association for labor inspection and its outstanding contribution to higher standards of occupational safety and health worldwide.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Distribution

In recognition of its healthy company model for the promotion of Health and Safety, EROSKI is awarded this special recognition for merit in management.

Eroski, S. Coop., founded in 1969, and a member of Corporación Mondragón, is one of the leading cooperative distribution companies in Spain. It employs more than 35,000 workers throughout the country. Since its creation, it has reinvested its profits on a permanent basis and allocates 10% of these to the Eroski Foundation, which focuses its activities on: consumer information, sustainable development and innovation, as well as social undertakings.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Life insurance

This special recognition for merit in management is granted to POSITIVA COMPAÑÍA DE SEGUROS S.A. for its “Positiva Educa” Project and its commitment to education in the benefits of healthy self-care habits.

Positiva Compañía de Seguros is a Colombian occupational risk and life insurance company. Founded in 1956, it is a public limited company in which the State is the majority shareholder. It comprises 457,750 companies affiliated to occupational risk insurance and more than 2,701,000 workers in all economic sectors currently active in Colombia.

• Country: Germany
• Sector of activity: Industrial manufacturing in four main sectors – industry, energy, health care and infrastructure.

Special recognition award to SIEMENS in recognition of its commitment to promoting the safety, health and welfare of its global workforce, going beyond compliance by addressing the personal values and mindsets of both managers and employees, and its outstanding contribution to worldwide collaboration in OSH.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Industry. Manufacturing of long stainless steel products

In special recognition for merit in business management for the development of an integrated occupational risk prevention management system based on cost-effectiveness of prevention and ongoing improvement, and its OLARRA BIZI program for a healthy company, this award goes to ACEROS INOXIDABLES OLARRA, S.A.

OLARRA began manufacturing steel in 1955. Thanks to its high-tech know-how and the guarantee of quality, OLARRA developed innovative applications that contributed to industrial advancement. A pioneer In Europe in the manufacture of stainless steel through the AOD argon-oxygen-decarburization process, today, OLARRA Stainless Steels is the world leader in the manufacture of stainless steels through horizontal continuous casting.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Aviation. Commercial airline.

In special recognition for Merit in Business Management, this award goes to AERO REPÚBLICA S.A. for its Healthy and Sustainable Workspaces Program using participatory ergonomics.

AERO REPÚBLICA S.A. is the second commercial passenger airline in Colombia in terms of international passengers handled, and fourth in overall traffic. Since October 5, 2010, it operates under the commercial name of Copa Airlines Colombia. In October 2016 Copa Holdings announced the creation of a new brand, Wingo.

Thanks to Aero Republica’s award-winning program, the company has achieved a 90% reduction in accidents in the department of maintenance, considered one of the areas at greatest risk, as well as three years of zero reports of occupational illnesses in the company.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Gas and petroleum.

The next award for Merit in Management is granted to ENAGÁS for its Model of Health and Safety Integration at a global level in the Business Group.

ENAGÁS, a worldwide company of energy infrastructures, is a certified Transmission System Operator (TSO) according to the standards of the European Union. It boasts 50 years of experience and operates in eight countries: Spain, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Albania, Greece, Italy and the United States. Listed on the Ibex 35 since its IPO in 2002, ENAGAS covers 12,000 km of gas pipelines and more than 50 renewable energy projects.

At the heart of ENAGAS is a team of more than 1,300 professionals, whose enthusiasm and drive combined with the best energy have made ENAGAS become an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) leader.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Chemicals in construction and industry

In recognition of merit in management for its project Safety and Self-Care, a Matter of Ethics, the next award goes to SIKA COLOMBIA S.A.S.

SIKA has been operating in Colombia for 71 years and worldwide for more than 111 years. The company employs 27,000 people around the world, 790 of whom work in Colombia, where it has four plants: Tocancipá, Rionegro, Barranquilla and Duitama, dedicated to the manufacture of different products in order to meet the needs of the Colombian and Latin American markets.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Public service

This special recognition for merit in management is awarded to VEOLIA SPAIN for So Well, its project on the well-being and integral health of individuals.

VEOLIA is at the forefront when it comes to efficient water, energy and waste management, promoting the sustainable development of cities and industries. The company has a track record of over 50 years in Spain, and a workforce of more than 15,000 people.

The So Well project builds on existing best practices and the development of new initiatives focused on the three dimensions of well-being: physical, mental and social. Together, these actions have an impact on the overall well-being of everyone who works at VEOLIA.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Renewable energy

This special recognition for merit in management is awarded to ACCIONA GENERACIÓN RENOVABLE for its commitment to the promotion and preservation of Health and Safety.

This company develops, builds and operates 100% renewable energy facilities. As a leader in sustainability, five years ago ACCIONA GENERACIÓN RENOVABLE launched the “Think Safe” Program which aims to improve Health and Safety.

The ORP Special Recognition for professional merit is awarded to the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Minister of Labour and Employment in the Basque Government, IDOIA MENDIA CUEVA, for her outstanding commitment to and promotion of occupational risk prevention through the Basque Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (OSALAN).

OSALAN was legally established in 1993 and its name is derived from Osa, which means health, and lan, which means work. Its responsibilities extend to all branches of economic activity where workers are employed. OSALAN is entrusted with the task of spreading the Culture of Prevention in accordance with both the European Guidelines and the Law on the Prevention of Occupational Risks.

• Country: Chile
• Sector of activity: Construction
• Number of employees: Near 1.000

A special award for merit in business management is given to Constructora SIGRO S.A. for the results obtained in reducing its accident rate. In the last year this rate was reduced by 38%. This result is the result of a series of initiatives such as:

• The training model for leading OHS supervisors.
• The Tactical Intervention Plan for worksites.
• Management of critical findings incorporating the continuous improvement cycle.
• The incorporation of strategic safety methodologies to transform the OHS culture with the active involvement of senior management.

Constructora SIGRO S.A. is a leading company in the Chilean national building market. It was created in 1982 and since then has built close to 5 million square metres in various projects throughout the country. It has a qualified team of around 1,000 workers trained to implement state-of-the-art technology and highly efficient construction processes.

• Country: Peru and Chile
• Sector of activity: Consultancy and Business Services
• Number of employees: More than 200

A special award for merit in business management is given to the TAWA Group, a conglomerate of companies dedicated to Outsourcing and Transitional Services. This award recognises its work in reducing the accident rate of its clients. The company has a strong commitment to prevention, maintains a valid AC and constantly promotes activities in favour of occupational health and safety.

TAWA Group specialises its services in the development of people to constantly bring value to its clients.

• Country: Denmark
• Sector of activity: International Leadership and Occupational Health and Safety Consulting
• Number of employees: More than 70

Special recognition for merit in business management for its commitment to promoting safety, health and well-being at work both in Denmark and internationally, and in particular for its leadership in the Danish Vision Zero Council.

Human House A/S is Denmark’s leading authorised leadership and OSH consultancy. It serves more than 2 000 organisations in both the public and private sectors.

It has two competence centres covering all areas of leadership and OSH, offering expertise in career counselling that makes a difference to both leaders and employees and always puts people at the centre of organisations.

• Country: Switzerland
• Sector of activity: Social Security and Occupational Safety and Health

Special Recognition for merit in business management for its long-standing commitment to the promotion of safety, health and well-being at work on a global scale including the co-organisation of the World Congresses on Safety and Health at Work. In particular, the key role of the ISSA Special Commission on Prevention in the development and promotion of the Vision Zero concept is highlighted.

It is important to emphasise that for social security institutions, prevention has always played, alongside compensation and rehabilitation programmes, a key role in providing a safety net for the insured.

The Special Commission on Prevention, which is made up of 14 international prevention sections, addresses both occupational risks arising from productive activity and emerging risks such as psychosocial risks.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Health services
• Affiliated companies: 95 000

Special recognition for merit in business management for its “Conscious Hearts” initiative for its consistently positive impact on the quality of life of its employees.

It involved 253 employees with pathologies such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes. The project included

• Medical evaluation.
• 360 degree programme of regular physical activity with monitoring and encouragement of adherence to exercise.
• Health cohort to monitor health conditions in EPS.
• Workshops on: benefit of exercise, stress management and anxiety prevention, practical exercise workshop, self-esteem and coping strategies.

With all these actions, the positive health of the participants improved by 93%.

About Compensar we must say that it was born in 1978 as an initiative of the Fundación Círculo de Obreros. Today it is the Social Foundation, a Social Security entity that provides its affiliates, through its Welfare Plans, with a broad portfolio of services that generate conditions that favour the personal and professional development of its workers and their families.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Telecommunications
• Number of employees: 4 091
• Company with presence in 5 regions: Medellín, Cali, Bucaramanga, Barranquilla and Pereira. It provides corporate services in the 32 departments of the country.

Special recognition for merit in business management for its “Networked Care” programme for its involvement at all levels in promoting the health and safety of its employees and contractors.

The aim of this project is to provide workers with the necessary support to deal with situations arising from Covid-19, based on their interest and closeness to their needs. With the support of the compensation fund and the ARL, actions of awareness and prevention, comprehensive assistance and follow-up, stabilisation and labour flexibility were consolidated. Actions carried out:

• Awareness raising and prevention.
• Comprehensive assistance and follow-up.
• Stabilisation.
• Labour flexibility.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Judiciary
• Number of judicial servants: 33,414

Special recognition for merit in business management for its “Networked Care” programme for the “Positively at your side” programme to promote the integral wellbeing of judicial servants.

The JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA is the set of institutions or closing bodies of the three main jurisdictions of the judicial system (ordinary, constitutional and contentious-administrative) together with the Judicial Government Council. They are formally and popularly referred to as the High Courts.

Through the actions of Biosafe Operations – response and measures adopted by the entity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – the actions implemented in the “POSITIVAMENTE A TU LADO” programme stand out as a strategy that seeks to promote the integral wellbeing of judicial servants, reducing the negative impact of psychosocial risk and/or mental illness in the work and family environment.

• Country: Colombia
• Sector of activity: Air transport
• Number of employees in Colombia: 7 800
• Number of employees in the business units: more than 3 000
• Number of aircraft: 189
• Number of destinations: 108 destinations in 26 countries in the Americas and Europe
• Daily flights: around 750
• Flights per week: around 6,000
• Passengers flown 2017: 29.4 million

Special recognition for merit in business management for its commitment to the sustainable development of equality and knowledge of the labour reincorporation process.

AEROVÍAS DEL CONTINENTE AMERICANO (AVIANCA) is the largest company in the airline industry in Colombia. The Vice-Presidency of Human Resources and its Safety, Health and Environment Division are committed to proposing strategies that support adaptation to the changes that may occur in people’s lives.

Based on this principle, the project “Icarus’ Flight towards Wellbeing” was launched, which seeks to enhance and give new meaning to the “here and now” of employees who are facing a long-term temporary return to work or a permanent relocation. “Icarus’ flight towards wellbeing” provides tools and resources aimed at promoting the integral wellbeing of employees, seeking to ensure that they take ownership of their health care from the physical, emotional, social and financial pillars.

Dr. Arezes is:

• President of the School of Engineering at UMinho.
• Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Programme in Portugal.
• Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University.

His scientific publications, as lead author or co-author, total 360 articles with a total of 4 992 citations in papers by other researchers according to Google Scholar data. Among other scientific journals he has published in Safety Science, The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health where the work “A brief description of the use of collaborative robots in Industry 4.0: human role and safety” was published. One of his latest papers, published in May 2022 in the International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics is “Prioritisation of leading operational indicators in occupational safety and health”.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Automotive industry

Special recognition for merit in business management for its advanced ergonomics project on work-related alert dynamics.

Stellantis, one of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers and mobility providers. Its brands include: Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and the Free2move and Leasys mobility brands.

In 2010, the Stellantis Group Spain presented a strategy that brings together wellness, health and safety policies with the objective of ‘0 accidents, 0 occupational illnesses’. “Workers have to alert to a change, something that has changed in their process, something that was going well and now goes wrong, a change of distribution that has not gone as well as expected… they alert so that we can work on that problem or that difficulty that has not materialised in an injury or pain but if we let it pass over time it can generate a problem for the worker” explained María del Pilar Rivas, Coordinator of the Ergonomics and Employability area of Stellantis Vigo, who collected the award on behalf of this company.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Civil and military shipbuilding

Special Recognition for merit in business management for its project “Help me to help you”.

The “Help me to help you” project earned Navantia, a public company dedicated to civil and military shipbuilding, the second of the ORP 2022 special awards for merit in business management 2022. This company designs and builds vessels with a high technological content for the Spanish Navy and other navies. It integrates systems and provides life cycle support, repair, modernisation and technology transfer (ToT) services in 20 countries and is a highly export-oriented company.

“Help Me Help You” focuses on the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the workforce through a specialised team. Charo Castañeda Flórez, Deputy Director of Occupational Health and Safety at Navantia, highlighted the work of the prevention specialists and explained that the “Help me to Help You” team works to address not only work-related problems but also personal problems because it is very difficult to draw the line between what affects the personal and work-related aspects”.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Banking

Special Recognition for merit in business management for promoting actions aimed at working on health and wellbeing through its internal platform ACTÍVATE

The internal platform ACTÍVATE for actions aimed at working on health and wellbeing earned ABANCA the third of the ORP special awards for merit in business management.

ABANCA is based in Galicia and is committed to a new way of banking based on what it calls ‘Sentir Común’ (Common Sense), detailing as values: responsibility, reliability, quality and innovation. The internal ACTÍVATE Platform was configured with actions aimed at working on health and wellbeing.

Almudena María Mourenza Cabanas, Head of the Prevention Service, although the ACTÍVATE project is not aimed at combating sedentary lifestyles, highlighted the importance of working on ergonomics in particular “through workshops focused on improving posture in the workplace”.

Antonio Raimundo Cárdenas Botas, Director of Labour Consultancy and PRL, explained that the platform had emerged both from the process of dialogue and listening with workers and at management level because “we have a high level of worker participation through the health and safety committee. Although the idea initially came from us, they bought it right away.

• Country: Spain
• Sector of activity: Business services

Special recognition for merit in business management for its management of Health and Safety at Work, for its commitment to training and for its involvement in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.

Grupo EULEN received the fourth award for merit in business management for its management of Health and Safety at Work, for its commitment to training and for its involvement in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. Founded in 1962 in Bilbao by its first president and founder, David Álvarez Díez, to provide services for companies and public institutions, the company is present in 11 countries with a global workforce of more than 75,000 people.

The award was collected by Javier Ignacio Ramos Rodrígues, Director of Labour Relations and Occupational Risk Prevention at Grupo EULEN, and Vanessa Lázaro García, Head of the Joint Prevention Service at Grupo EULEN.

Ramos Rodrígues highlighted the technical study, the awareness campaign and the training programme, in addition to adapting the necessary elements to reduce injuries and musculoskeletal disorders. As a result, he explained, “in the centres where the methodology was applied, there has been a reduction in the prevalence of this type of disorder of between 15% and 20%”.

For her part, Vanessa Lázaro, Head of the Joint Prevention Service at Grupo EULEN, recalled that “diversity at all levels and multiculturalism are taken into account when carrying out evaluations in all the initiatives carried out in the company”.

The first special recognition for professional merit ORP 2022 was awarded to Dr. Carlos Ruiz Frutos, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Huelva (UHU) for his work in promoting the well-being of people and his commitment to the promotion of healthy companies.

He is a recognised international speaker on working conditions, job insecurity, occupational risks and assessment tools, occupational illnesses and training in Health and Safety at Work. He has at least 42 articles published in journals on ergonomics and public health in scientific journals such as: ‘International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics’, ‘International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health’, ‘Safety Science’, ‘Journal of Clinical Medicine’ and ‘PLOS ONE’.

“Acts like this have an enormous maturity and it is especially nice to be here and receive this award. Years ago when we started with the prevention of occupational hazards at the beginning we thought it was very good and then it seemed that it did not advance but seeing the participation in events like this and the young people we can have peace of mind because we leave a great future” said Dr. Ruiz Frutos.

The last ORP 2022 professional merit award at the ORPHEUS night in Santiago de Compostela was presented to Dr. Pablo Yañez Rodríguez, Director of Occupational Risk Prevention at Acciona Infraestructuras for his work in promoting the wellbeing of people and his commitment to promoting healthy companies.

Acciona is a global group that develops and manages sustainable infrastructure solutions, especially renewable energy. Its activity covers the entire value chain of design, construction, operation and maintenance. It currently employs around 38,000 people of 131 nationalities. In 2021, the Refinitiv Diversity & Inclusion index ranked the company as the 36th best in the world in terms of Diversity and Social Inclusion.

“Behind an individual award there is a collective award, an award from a great team, from many companies, from many professionals. And I would like to dedicate this award to the world of prevention. It is true that we are living in a contradictory moment where there is a public health problem, a moment of uncertainty with three sectors, globalisation, digitalisation and climate change, and an existential crisis of humanity. At the end of the road the human being, our soul is going to flourish again, and what distinguishes us over the machine and digitalisation is our poetry and our music. Those are our great values,” Dr Yáñez wanted to express.

Country: Colombia
Sector of activity: Hydrocarbon industry
Number of employees: Schlumberger Limited is the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs approximately 95,000 people of 140 nationalities working in more than 85 countries, with headquarters in Houston, Paris, London, and The Hague.

Schlumberger is given a special award for merit in business management for the integrity of its actions in favour of prevention.

In Colombia, this company is at the forefront of technology in services. Among its achievements are the excellent accident rate indicators that show its commitment to occupational health and safety.

The award was collected by Luz Stella Rodríguez, Vice-President of Prevention and Occupational Risk Service at Colmena Seguros (Colombia).

Country: Colombia
Sector of activity: Health. Inpatient hospital and clinic activities
Total number of Workers: 3,386 (In plant: 2907)
Annual figures: 96,032 emergencies. 221,895 Outpatient consultations. 21,077 Teleconsultations. 12,533 surgeries. 25,602 hospital discharges.

Special recognition for merit in business management 2021 was awarded to the Hospital Universitario San Ignacio de Bogotá for its project: ‘Containment and integral protection for the working population of the HUSI during the COVID-19 emergency’.

It developed an extensive line of initiatives, among which the following stand out:

Reporting, monitoring and follow-up of COVID 19 cases.
Healthy skin programme to address the injuries caused to healthcare personnel by the continuous sanitisation and use of protective elements.
Mental health and wellbeing programme Safe behaviour programme to protect against COVID.
Husi with you at home – a strategy aimed at teleworking employees.

Hospital Universitario San Ignacio is an institution founded in 1942, accredited for excellence in health services by ICONTEC and as a University Hospital by the Ministries of Health and Social Protection and National Education.

It is also an academic environment for the training of students of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. It develops research with innovative and sustainable contributions to the health system and the community. It is inspired by the management of Integral Ecology, seeking development in the pursuit of healthier, more humane and more social progress.

Doctor Julio César Castellanos Ramírez, General Director of the Hospital Universitario San Ignacio will be present in Santiago de Compostela to receive the award.

Country: Spain
Sector of activity: Multinational energy and petrochemical company founded in 1987, with a wide range of products marketed in 100 countries. It applies cutting-edge technology to obtain the best solutions for the energy industry. It has more than 280 digital initiatives in place to improve efficiency, safety and resource optimisation.
Number of employees: It has a diverse workforce (79 nationalities represented) of almost 25,000 employees in 31 countries.

Special recognition for merit in business management has been awarded to REPSOL for its international involvement at all levels in promoting the health and safety of its employees, endorsed by certifications such as ISO 45001 and Healthy Company.

All this investment and experience accumulated over the years in the field of Occupational Risk Prevention has enabled an agile and excellent response and the implementation of the necessary protocols to maintain the company’s activity in the context of the pandemic, with the maximum health and safety guarantees for employees, customers, suppliers, etc.

Receiving the award were Jacobo Aguado de Frutos, People and Organisation Management Manager at the Repsol Petróleo A Coruña Industrial Complex, and María Jesús Arribas Antón, Safety and Environment Manager at the Repsol Petróleo A Coruña Industrial Complex.

Country: Spain
Sector of activity: Organisation of sectoral and professional fairs and events.
It is an economic driving force as a platform for business, the promotion of trade and the industrial fabric, the international projection of companies, the exchange of knowledge and the attraction of talent.
Number of workers: It generates more than 35,000 jobs.
Its annual contribution to Barcelona’s economy is estimated at more than 4.7 billion euros a year.

The fourth special recognition for merit in business management has been awarded to: Fira de Barcelona for defining, developing and implementing a technical-sanitary action protocol that has allowed the development of the business activity itself in a COVID safe environment.

This protocol, together with the implementation of technological tools, has enabled effective monitoring and control in relation to the virus with a preventive and early action scope, as well as action and care follow-up if necessary.

All of this has favoured the holding of events, congresses, etc. in a safe environment and offering the maximum guarantee of health and safety for its employees, contractors, congress participants, attendees, etc.

Receiving the award was Jordi Estruga, Guest Events Operations Director of Fira de Barcelona.

Country: Spain
Sector of activity: Occupational Health and Safety. It extends its action to all companies and all working personnel, men and women, with respect to workplaces located in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, including public administrations and the personnel in their service.

Recognition for merit in business management goes to the Instituto Galego de Seguridade e Saúde Laboral for the implementation and continuous improvement of the prevention management system in Galicia. This institute is the technical body of the Xunta de Galicia’s occupational risk prevention policies and at the same time serves as an open space for contributions in OHS.

One of its great values is the development of an action plan shared and agreed with the social agents of Galicia, who have active and qualified participation in the institute.

Adela Quinzá-Torroja, Manager of the Instituto Galego de Seguridade e Saúde Laboral, receives the award.

Country: Spain
Sector of activity: Ship repair and maintenance
The operational space in Barcelona covers more than 150,000m2, including 3 dry docks, berthing and transport options for the world’s largest superyachts.

Special ORP recognition for merit in business management goes to Marina Barcelona 92 for its track record in OHS and for its involvement at all levels in promoting the health and safety of its own employees, contractors and foreign crews.

The investment in health and safety and the development of an effective protocol against the COVID virus has allowed the company to continue to develop its business activity, guaranteeing a safe working environment throughout the shipyard.

The award was collected by Laura Pérez, HSE Manager at Marina Barcelona 92.

Country: Spain
Sector(s) of activity: Non-profit institution that works for the social, educational and cultural development of Galicia.
Its numerous activities include its social work programme to prevent situations of extreme poverty and social exclusion. And the Salcines training programme (PFS).

Special recognition for merit in business management goes to the Venancio Salcines Foundation for its Desarrolla, Talento e Impulsa Scholarship programme.

These grants provide young graduates in higher education with their first contact with the business world so that they can apply the knowledge acquired during their training, with the fundamental value of Occupational Risk Prevention and Occupational Health.

The Venancio Salcines Foundation is a non-profit organisation aimed at supporting education, the new economy and direct social aid to disadvantaged groups.

Its President, Venancio Salcines, received the recognition.

Country: Spain
Sector of activity: Fishing. Present throughout the value chain, from catching or farming to marketing.
Number of employees: Approximately 17,000 employees spread over four continents.

Latest special recognition for merit in business management for the Nueva Pescanova Group. For taking a holistic view of its organisation, detecting and committing to areas for improvement in order to achieve dimensions of commercial and business development in which the focus is on well-being at work and the sustainable use of resources.

It underwent the self-diagnosis process of the 5Z sustainable business model and was audited following the protocol of this model for four days. Through interviews, review of documentation and on-site visits, the level of compliance of the Nueva Pescanova Group’s management system was verified, taking the evaluation criteria of the 5Z model as a reference.

The recognition was received by the General Manager of People, Alfonso Gordon, accompanied by Carlo Alberto Berto, corporate director of risk prevention and integral prevention.

Our first recognition for professional merit in 2021 has been awarded to Mr. Cristóbal Prado, General Manager of the Chilean Safety Association (ACHS) for his work in promoting continuous improvement in the prevention management system in Chile.

The Asociación Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS) is a private, non-profit, Chilean, mutual corporation, associated with the Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (SOFOFA).

It provides full coverage for occupational accident claims and develops risk prevention programmes in Chile.

It is in charge of the Hospital del Trabajador in Santiago and an extensive network of hospitals, clinics and occupational accident centres.

The Asociación Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS) has more than 2,600,000 affiliated workers, more than 73,000 affiliated employers throughout Chile and has the lowest average accident rate, which makes it the most important mutual insurance company in the South American country.

Mr. Cristóbal Prado Fernández, a commercial engineer, has been its General Manager since 2011.

In the lines of action and work that fall under his impulse is the work of the ACHS in the overall health care of workers, the prevention of occupational diseases and a special and careful attention to psychosocial risks.

He is one of the business leaders who recall the responsibility of top management to create a safety culture in organisations. He also insists and emphasises that having safety at work methodologies is good business because it generates higher productivity and greater company development.

The following recognition for professional merit was awarded to Mr. Narcís Berberana, Chief Strategist Officer at Agbar for the work carried out in promoting the well-being of people and his commitment to promoting healthy companies.

Agbar is a multinational company with global expertise in the water and waste sectors. It helps cities and industries to preserve and secure essential resources such as water.

The sustainability, strategy and challenge of making the generation of social and environmental value profitable has been extended to obtaining data on the health of the population through water analysis.

Narcís Berberana, began his career in the water management sector at Sorea in 2003. In 2005 he was appointed Corporate Manager of Aguas Andinas de Chile. In 2011 he assumed the position of Director of Environment and Operations at Agbar, where he has held various positions up to the one he holds today: Chief Strategist Officer.

In his career and work, it should be noted that he places great value on communication. He is concerned with creating highly visual messages that facilitate dissemination and values collaboration at all levels as a vital necessity.

Narcís Berberana receives the award.

The last recognition for professional merit awarded by ORP in 2021, and the last award of the evening, goes to Dr. Tomás Camacho García, Technical Director of Clinical Analysis at VithasLab for his work in the dissemination of Occupational Health and Safety based on scientific evidence.

VithasLab is a general and specialised biodiagnostic centre, covering various fields of biopathology with more than 30 years of experience. Every year they carry out more than 2.7 million tests, which are received from the more than 300 collaborating points that the laboratory has distributed throughout Spain. It serves more than 4,500,000 patients in its 19 hospitals and 25 specialised centres called Vithas Salud.

Dr. Camacho’s work highlights that workers, especially those who work night shifts, are affected to a greater extent by the release of free radicals of environmental origin, which also implies a greater risk of suffering from diseases derived from the harmful combination of both radicals.

Scientific evidence allows us to look for specific solutions. The fight against the manifestation of ageing, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, arteriosclerosis, neurological diseases, skin irritation and inflammation begins with a thorough knowledge of the disease and what causes it, as well as the application of medical, pharmacological and, of course, self-care solutions.

Tomás Camacho García receives the award.

We start with a Peruvian mining company committed to the well-being of its employees and the environment. For its strong commitment to the continuous improvement of its occupational health and safety management systems. ORP awards recognition for merit in business management to MINERA CHINALCO PERU.

Receiving the award:

• Carlos Cueva, Occupational Health and Safety Manager of the company.
• Juan Manuel Diminch, Occupational Health and Safety Superintendent.

The following recognition is for an entity that has believed in and invested in Occupational Risk Prevention, promoting an International Programme to care for the health and safety of all its collaborators. We give this recognition to CAIXABANK.

Receiving the award…

• Francisco Javier Rojas Horrillo, Director of Labour Relations and ORP
• Manuel Antonio Figueiredo de Jesús, Joint Prevention Service Manager
• Ana Maria García Sánchez, Head of Prevention, Health and Well-being Projects

The following company has a Japanese name as its origins are in Japan. Its name translates into English as “small pine tree” but in this case the tree has grown and its branches have spread all over the world. We would like to give special recognition to the business management of KOMATSU COLOMBIA SAS for its commitment to the well-being of people through innovation.

Receiving the award…

• Ivan Jose Moreno Llinas, Assistant Manager of Safety, Health and Environment of Komatsu Colombia.

The following award winners have been doing great work in the field of occupational health and safety for many years. We would like to thank the ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ERGONOMÍA for these 30 years of effort, for defending and promoting a working environment that adapts to the needs of all workers.

Receiving the award…

• Francisco Javier Llaneza, President of the Spanish Ergonomics Association.

Now it is the turn of another large company, the leading provider of air navigation and aeronautical information services in Spain, the fourth largest in Europe in terms of traffic volume and one of the most important worldwide. ORP wishes to recognise ENAIRE’s commitment to quality prevention with an ORP management system that seeks continuous improvement without sparing any effort.

They receive the award…

• Maria Lourdes Mesado Martinez, Director of People at Enaire
• Emiliano Martin Lucas, Head of the Division of the Occupational Risk Prevention Service of Enaire.

And from the air to the railway world. FERROVÍAS holds the concession for the passenger service on the Belgrano Norte Line of the Argentinean railway network, one of the largest in the world. ORP recognises with this award its work in the implementation of a Preventive Culture to reduce the accident rate.

Receiving the award…

• Manuel Corvalán
• Emilio Aguilera

But it is not only companies that receive awards, this time the recognition goes to an admirable project: “HELPING THOSE WHO HELP”. A SUEZ initiative to help Third Sector Entities by raising awareness, training and providing their volunteers with good practices to improve their Health and Safety. Congratulations on the excellent results achieved and may there be many more to come.

Receiving the award…

• José María Verdejo, Head of Health and Safety at Suez for Spain and Latin America

With this last recognition we would like to award MYRIAM CLERICI, President of Provincia ART, for her work in promoting the wellbeing of people and her commitment to the promotion of healthy companies.