Life at the Centre, a feminist slogan that resonates on safety and health at work day

Life at the Centre
Cristal Campillay, Head of Care at Calala, stresses that taking care of life means not only preventing illness, but also promoting well-being and good treatment at work. The 28 April, declared by the ILO, is an opportunity to reflect on organisational and personal health. This year, the ILO focuses on creating a positive safety culture. At Calala, we are committed to caring policies and open communication for a safe and healthy working environment.

Caring for life is not only about preventing illnesses or accidents, but also about considering wellbeing and good treatment as a key element in the promotion and preservation of integral wellbeing that ensures quality of life, but also about laying the foundations for social and climate justice to allow everyone to live a life that worth the joy of living.

It is therefore essential that today's organisations transcend the logic of safety at work as an area of prevention and health promotion as opposed to illness and physical integrity, and instead work on organisational health, and of each member, The focus is on the care in the relationship between people, with nature and with ourselves, giving relevance to the practices and rites that allow us that human and spiritual connection, our connection with the body, our rhythms and even with the cyclicality of menstruating people, among other things.

Key words: Decent work, security, health, welfare, care and feminism.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) declared 28 April 2003 as the International Day for Safety and Health at Work, with the aim of to promote safe conditions and prevent accidents in all workplaces and workplaces.

It is therefore worth highlighting the importance of this goal and asking ourselves how we should care for, promote and promote the wellbeing of people and teams in our organisations today, being coherent with our values as an institution and from our activist spaces as feminists.

On the other hand, under the slogan “advance social justice, promote decent work”The ILO itself invites us to think about what we mean by this, considering that today we women find ourselves, as we have for years, dealing with the precariousness of our work, with the lack of recognition of our indispensable work for the sustainability of life and even more, with gaps that are not only salary, supporting households from the underground economy that today, as Saskia Sassen points out, is “the product and driving force of advanced capitalism and the site of the most enterprising aspects of the urban economy

For if we do not pay attention to these social conditions, we can speak of welfare in vain, since it can be reduced to a bourgeois privilege and not to a right for all.

This year the ILO will focus on participation and social dialogue in creating a positive safety and health culture. For as we have witnessed and witnesses during this pandemic “a strong occupational safety and health (OSH) system, including effective participation of governments, employers, workers, public health actors and all relevant parties at the national and enterprise level, has been instrumental in protecting working environments and safeguarding workers' safety and health”.

Therefore, in  Calala, we are constantly working on promoting Care Policies, The current approach, which is based on ensuring that both management and the rest of the workers value and promote the right to a safe and healthy environment for all people, and, We are committed to the continuous improvement of our well-being as working people, including through active and meaningful participation all opinions and perspectives, building bridges of understanding and clear, open and effective channels of communication to raise our concerns in an environment of trust and respect.

 

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