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The document, signed with Foment del Treball, Pimec, CCOO and UGT, highlights the need to improve current working conditions
Barcelona City Council signed this Monday the first agreement to take care of mental health at work, which highlights the need to influence the improvement of working conditions. The council has signed it with Foment del Treball, Pimec and the CCOO and UGT unions and the initiative, open to the adherence of companies and organizations in the city, is part of the City Council’s Mental Health Plan 2016-2022. Whether or not to have a job and the type of job that you have has a very clear impact on people’s state of health”, pointed out the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau.
The purpose of the agreement is promote measures that help care for and ensure mental health in the Laboral scene. To do this, they have assumed a series of principles to work by the signatory organizations.
These principles go through influencing the improvement of Labor conditions, encourage companies to offer their workers mental health resources, promote the sensitization of the templates, facilitate training, promote the labor integration of people with mental disorders, minimize exposure to psychosocial risk factors at work, facilitate the implementation of specific prevention programs of mental disorders, combat psychological harassment, introduce detection tools and promote coordination between occupational risk prevention services in companies and the mental health network.
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Colau has highlighted that, as a result of the covid-19 health crisis, another crisis has been born: that of mental health. “It already existed before, but it was very silenced. One of the good things about this terrible pandemic is that now there is more talk about mental health,” stressed the mayor, who has insisted that “Good working conditions are the basis of good emotional health.”
To facilitate the implementation of the commitments of the agreement, the Consell Assessor de Salut Laboral (CASL) of Barcelona City Council has drawn up a resource catalog aimed at companies, occupational health professionals, workers and citizens.