The ultimate responsibility for the safety and health of Spanish workers falls on the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security. The agency dependent on the ministry in charge of supporting and promoting occupational safety and health in its technical aspects is the National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work.[8]​ The Labor and Social Security Inspection also depends on the same ministry as the authority responsible for monitoring and controlling compliance with standards regarding safety and health at work.[9]​.

Las técnicas de prevención de riesgos laborales son métodos y procedimientos destinados a intervenir directamente sobre los riesgos en el entorno laboral. Su objetivo es actuar antes de que los riesgos se materialicen, evitando así posibles daños a la salud de los trabajadores. En España, la legislación distingue principalmente cuatro especialidades o disciplinas técnicas dentro del ámbito de la prevención de riesgos laborales:.

Safety at work

Safety at work") is the technical discipline framed in the prevention of occupational risks whose objective is the application of measures and the development of the activities necessary for the prevention of risks derived from work. It consists of a set of techniques and procedures that aim to avoid and, where appropriate, eliminate or minimize the risks that may lead to the materialization of accidents at work, (injuries, including acute effects caused by potentially dangerous agents or products).

Industrial hygiene

Industrial hygiene") (known in some countries as labor or occupational) is the technical discipline aimed at controlling the risks derived from work processes in order to protect both the health of workers and the environment. The technician specialized in this area who develops the corresponding preventive functions in the company is called a hygienist. by technical procedures.

Ergonomics and applied psychosociology

Ergonomics can be defined as the discipline that uses a set of techniques whose objective is the adaptation between work and the person. On the other hand, applied psychosociology") is the discipline that is part of Occupational Risk Prevention (along with Ergonomics), and whose purpose is to identify the factors of work organization that can cause damage to the health of workers, in different aspects (emotional, cognitive, physiological,...).

Medicine at work

Occupational medicine is the discipline that is based on knowledge of the functions and functioning of the human organism and its interaction with the environment in which it lives and carries out its activity, to achieve the objectives of health promotion, cure of diseases and rehabilitation.

The ultimate responsibility for the safety and health of Spanish workers falls on the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security. The agency dependent on the ministry in charge of supporting and promoting occupational safety and health in its technical aspects is the National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work.[8]​ The Labor and Social Security Inspection also depends on the same ministry as the authority responsible for monitoring and controlling compliance with standards regarding safety and health at work.[9]​.

Las técnicas de prevención de riesgos laborales son métodos y procedimientos destinados a intervenir directamente sobre los riesgos en el entorno laboral. Su objetivo es actuar antes de que los riesgos se materialicen, evitando así posibles daños a la salud de los trabajadores. En España, la legislación distingue principalmente cuatro especialidades o disciplinas técnicas dentro del ámbito de la prevención de riesgos laborales:.

Safety at work

Safety at work") is the technical discipline framed in the prevention of occupational risks whose objective is the application of measures and the development of the activities necessary for the prevention of risks derived from work. It consists of a set of techniques and procedures that aim to avoid and, where appropriate, eliminate or minimize the risks that may lead to the materialization of accidents at work, (injuries, including acute effects caused by potentially dangerous agents or products).

Industrial hygiene

Industrial hygiene") (known in some countries as labor or occupational) is the technical discipline aimed at controlling the risks derived from work processes in order to protect both the health of workers and the environment. The technician specialized in this area who develops the corresponding preventive functions in the company is called a hygienist. by technical procedures.

Ergonomics and applied psychosociology

Ergonomics can be defined as the discipline that uses a set of techniques whose objective is the adaptation between work and the person. On the other hand, applied psychosociology") is the discipline that is part of Occupational Risk Prevention (along with Ergonomics), and whose purpose is to identify the factors of work organization that can cause damage to the health of workers, in different aspects (emotional, cognitive, physiological,...).

Medicine at work

Occupational medicine is the discipline that is based on knowledge of the functions and functioning of the human organism and its interaction with the environment in which it lives and carries out its activity, to achieve the objectives of health promotion, cure of diseases and rehabilitation.