ANNUAL

REPORT

2019

Presentation

This year 2019 has been a year of great activity and success for the International ORP Foundation. More than a thousand participants at the ORP International Congress in Madrid and more than 1,500 participants at the pre-congress events.

The figures indicate that the ORP International Foundation has fulfilled its main objective: to raise awareness of innovations in occupational risk prevention among those responsible for this area in companies, to put them in contact with researchers and scientists working to find practical solutions to the current and future needs of their organisations, and to contribute to establishing a culture of prevention.

More than 300 speakers have presented their work at the events organised.

This year, the working theme of our dissemination and promotion of scientific research was “healthy companies: the value of people in the digital era”.

A healthy company is the evidence that people are the asset to be protected, but this vision goes far beyond the care of direct collaborators and becomes, by the goodness of the method, the protector of all people and the environment.

The Foundation aims to facilitate access to scientific advances for all organisations, especially those in Spain, Europe and Latin America.

We believe that we have come a long way, but that the road ahead is still long because, as Professor Pedro R. Mondelo said at the opening of the International ORPConference, “History rarely puts us in front of ‘golden minutes’ that change the evolution and progress of humanity”. To continue in this race, we need everyone’s passion and our community to continue to grow. Hence the need to recognise and value the collaboration of universities around the world, led by the CERpIE of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the companies that make up our business committee; as well as the collaborating companies in each of the activities developed by the ORP International Foundation for their commitment.

For believing and working with us so that occupational risk prevention ceases to be a legal and conceptual obligation and becomes what it should be: an essential work philosophy in business management. This report includes the activities carried out by the ORP International Foundation throughout 2019 and aims to be a basic element in the dissemination of the work carried out by all of us.