Sistematización de la experiencia práctica de intervención del diseño de un plan de prevención de riesgos psicosociales en una empresa comercializadora de alimentos de la ciudad de Quito, en el periodo noviembre 2018 – abril 2019

Abstract

The purpose of the systematization is the reconstruction of the experience lived in the design of an action plan, for the prevention of psychosocial risks in a Food Trading Company, whose business is the production of hot and cold drinks, as well as the sale of sweet and salt desserts. In a legal context, the company does not have an action plan regarding the prevention of psychosocial risk factors, to comply with the regulations issued on June 16, 2017 through agreement # 82, by the Ministry of Labor which issues the “Eradication of discrimination in the workplace” regulations, due to which the implementation of programs to prevent psychosocial risks in all companies with more than 10 workers is mandatory. For this, the “Psychosocial Risk Assessment Questionnaire” proposed by the Ministry of Labor (2018) was used, where its objective is to assess the risks that affect the health of workers; and at the same time generating actions to prevent or reduce these risks, it consists of 8 dimensions to evaluate such as: Work Load and Rate, Skills Development, Leadership, Margin of Action and Control, Work Organization, Recovery, Support and Support, Other Important Points. With a quantitative methodology, which allowed measuring the variables in a given context, and a cross-sectional design carried out in the period November 2018 - April 2019, time in which the existing psychosocial risks were identified, proposing actions that address these risks, taking as a sample the 250 workers