Health and safety at work, the commitment of Colombian companies in the area of continual improvement

Abstract

Occupational safety and health is an issue that has now received special attention from all members of the country's work environments. This is largely due to the recent reforms that the governing bodies have carried out with a view to giving way to a more reliable scenario in which workers have real guarantees for carrying out their productive activity. Next, and with the purpose of reflecting on the current state of the insertion of Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems within the organizational and strategic components of any business cell, we will review the postulates that researchers in the area have made in this regard, which indicate that this is a pending task in the country, since the advances are not as 5156 Rosa María Rodríguez Baron et al. perceptible as would be expected by this date. The methodology used was documentary, taking as reference articles published in the last 5 years, which will facilitate to observe the approaches of the mentioned topic and to generate at the end contributions and analysis from the professional point of view, as contribution to the construction of new knowledge in the area of interest.