Implementation of the Occupational Health and Safety Committee and its impact on the Safety Climate of the Workers of the Universidad Alas Peruanas Branch Piura, Period 2018 – 2019

Abstract

Occupational health and safety have now become fundamental elements in the development of work in any company, whether in the public or private sphere; and, the establishment of standards in this area, their implementation and monitoring have been strengthened in our country at the same time as in the rest of the world.

In Peru, we have the general framework, through Law No. 29783, Law on Safety and Health at Work and its Regulation D.S. No. 005-2012-TR, regulated by the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE), as well as by the Ministry of Health, these being suprasectoral organizations in the prevention of risks in the field of safety and health at work.

In the case of Universidad Alas Peruanas, it has the respective internal regulations on occupational health and safety (OSH), as well as the establishment of the OSH committee, which operates following the guidelines established by national standards. 

The main purpose of this research is to determine the most relevant characteristics of the scientific production published in high-impact journals indexed in the Scopus database, as well as the theoretical definitions of occupational health and safety during the period 2018-2019.