The worker participation essential for health promotion in the workplace La participación de los trabajadores esencia para la promoción de la salud en los lugares de trabajo

Abstract

The participation of workers at the various levels of the organizational structure potentially contributes to the implementation of clear and feasible health promotion actions in the workplace (PSLT), which is why it is constituted as a primary element within of the organization as a determinant for the formulation of strategies and development of activities of the health and safety management system at work. The PSLT is based on the creation of healthy work environments with the emblem “the wealth of companies depends on the health of workers” (WHO, 2010, p.3), to achieve this it is required that each of the workers Empower your situation as a worker, participate in the improvement of working conditions, generating self-management and collective intervention, as well as adequate working conditions. The objective of this article is to make a conceptual approach to the participation of workers in the PSLT, identify experiences in this regard and determine the guidelines for promoting the participation of workers in Health Promotion in the Workplace. It was required to consult relevant bibliography and articles on experiences on the topic with the literary search in the Science Direct and Lilacs databases, with the descriptors “worker's and participation”.