Carmen Planas: “Providing a safe and healthy working environment is a key factor because companies are made up of people and if staff members are doing well, companies thrive.”
Endesa, Meliá Hotels International, Angel 24 and Mac Insular were this edition’s finalists.
Palma, 22 June 2018. - The companies Sampol y Ferratur won the 7th CAEB Awards for Good Business Practices in Occupational Health and Safety organised by the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB - Confederación de Asociaciones Empresariales de Baleares) in cooperation with the Spanish Foundation for the Prevention of Occupational Hazards (FSP - Fundación Estatal para la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales). The companies that have been named as finalists are the following (in alphabetical order): Endesa and Meliá Hotels International, in the category for “Companies with more than 200 employees” as well as Angel 24 and Mac Insular in the category for “Companies with 1 to 200 employees”.
The President of the CAEB has pointed out that “with these awards the CAEB wishes to recognise and highlight the efforts and hard work of the companies in the field of occupational risk prevention”. Carmen Planas congratulated the winners and finalists, stating that “providing a safe and healthy working environment is a key factor for companies to stay competitive because companies are made up of people and if staff members are doing well, companies thrive”.
Planas has also explained that “occupational safety and health is a value that the CAEB has championed and promoted for more than 18 years through a quite extensive effort in providing training, information, advice and support to the local business community”.
The event’s attendees included the Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Occupational Epidemiology of the National Institute of Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (INSSBT - Instituto Nacional de Seguridad, Salud y Bienestar en el Trabajo), Francisco Marqués; the head of the Social Security and Occupational Risk Prevention Service of the Confederation of Employers’ Organisations of Spain (CEOE - Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales), Marina Gordón, and the General Director of Labour, Social Economy and Occupational Health of the Regional Government of the Balearic Islands, Isabel Castro.