Rol del psicólogo en la salud y seguridad en el trabajo

Abstract

In the business context, employers have the obligation to promote conditions that guarantee the physical and psychological health of their workers, in addition to permanently identifying those factors that could affect occupational illnesses or accidents, in accordance with Colombian regulations that regulate the responsibility of the companies promoting Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (SGSST). In this way, the purpose of this review article is intended to describe the role of the psychologist in the implementation of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System according to the literature reported between 2017 and 2022; taking into consideration the duty of companies to effectively control psychosocial risk factors originating within the workplace, which would bring economic benefits, since it would minimize temporary or permanent absences, in addition to the efficient development of human capital. It is concluded that the actions of the professional in health psychology is necessary, more in recent times when phenomena such as economic and information globalization, in addition to recent scenarios due to COVID-19, demand for the application of the Battery of Psychosocial Risk, with the purpose of identifying the possible imbalance in the mental and emotional health of the worker; this information being relevant, for the execution of individual, bi-modal or group psychotherapy models, which allow minimizing and even eradicating those intra-work factors that could cause psychological and even psychiatric disorders.