Abstract

MUNOZ POBLETE, Claudio  and  VANEGAS LOPEZ, Jairo. Bioethics focus from the relation Worker ‐ Safety: One issue to be addressed. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.349-458. ISSN 1514-6871.

From the discipline of the bioethics the conflict in relation to the right to the health and safety of the worker, and the legitimate aim of the companies to maximize the production, continues being a hanging topic. At present works, persist with high levels of insecurity and enormous differences as for job safety, between countries, economic sectors, social groups and between line of business, in spite of the achievements reached in labor laws during last century. The persistence of highly work hazards and processes of technological innovation, between others, have transported new and unknown risks for the health. Opposite to this uncertainty the beginning of the precaution based on the scientific advances and the social values, it allows adopting measures to avoid or to diminish the hurt when the activity humanizes is exposed to a labor risk that they are not morally acceptable. It imposes the need to support efficient programs of prevention, vigilance and risk evaluation. The previous thing, he carries to considering the beginning of responsibility, considering that every member of a company would be responsible for the good for the others. In this respect, the social responsibility must be reflected in actions for which they take decisions, so much of the State sector as of the Private sector, to propose public policies and procedure that protect the workers. The occupational health as a global good, debit was orientating to public policies of global character, but with collective responsibility and favoring of the coherence of interests between the State, the workers and the private sector.

Keywords : Bioethics; Work hazards; Safety of worker; Justice; Autonomy; Precaution; Social responsibility.

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