The document will be drawn up with the trade unions and employers’ organisations to reach a consensus between the public administration and social agents for the benefit of the public.

The first training and awareness-raising working group has been set up, in addition to promoting the correct use of social benefits.

Today, the regional secretary for Labour, Employment and Social Dialogue, Catalina Cabrer, led a meeting to begin a work campaign to improve absenteeism and accident rates in the Balearic Islands. The meeting was attended by the director of the Balearic Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IBASSAL), Óscar Paz, and representatives of the Regional Ministry of Health, the Balearic Provincial Directorate of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) and the Territorial Council of the Association of Mutual Insurance Companies in the Balearic Islands (AMAT).

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The Government launches a work campaign to improve absenteeism and accidents at work in the Balearic Islands

Cabrer explained: ‘We have agreed on a first working document to tackle our community’s accident and absenteeism rates. It is a living document that we will work with and finalise with the social agents, trade unions and employers, to work hand in hand and reach a consensus that is good for the citizens of our islands’.

He added: ‘We have closed working groups to address this situation. Specifically, today we have started the first training and awareness-raising group both to reduce the accident rate and to improve absenteeism, as well as to promote the correct use of social benefits.

The collaboration aims to identify and apply improvements in the management and control of temporary incapacity processes during the first 365 days of its duration to improve the health of workers by promoting actions to optimise prevention, establish healthy company programmes and reduce the incidence rates of occupational accidents. In addition, the aim is to streamline processes, and formalities and eliminate bureaucracy, i.e. administrative simplification.

In this sense, the regional secretary expressed her satisfaction: ‘We are beginning a work that interests us all, because we believe that it is good for our society and that it is a path that we have to take together with all citizens, workers, companies and public administrations. We are talking about occupational health, productivity in companies and we are talking about streamlining processes and bureaucracy. And we think that this will be good for our Community.