The RACE Launches www.planmovilidad.es, the first platform for managing mobility in the enterprise.

-More than 20,000 workers conducted the courses given by the RACE at its Academy of occupational itínere in ” and mission ”

– according to the INSHT, one in three workers who died in Spain have lost their lives as a result of a traffic accident

-of the total number of deaths by accident of traffic between 15 and 65years, 14.2 per cent occurred in a working environment

-produced by traffic accidents with low have increased from 6.3% in 2003 to 10.1% in 2010

-the RACE for new technologies in the training of workers and the prevention of occupational risks

Madrid, January 2012- accidents in the workplace have increased in relation to another type of claims in the same field, increasing his weight in total labour accident statistics.

According to data of the Ministry of employment and Social Security, produced in the traffic accidents with low have gone from 6.3% in 2003 to 10.1% by the year 2010, with more than 65.400 accidents in this last period. For this reason, the Royal Automobile Club of Spain – RACE wants to offer businesses a tool to aid in the planning of mobility and road safety, with the development plans of the platform for mobility and road safety in enterprises ” offering advice and recommendations to prevent accidents, as well as information on obtaining tax grants and subsidies for its development.

An accident at work is any bodily injury suffered by a worker on the occasion or as a result of his work, and this concept is included in both the journey from his home to the center of work and vice versa (in itinere) as displacement during their working day (Mission). If we take into account the total number of fatal work accidents, statistics show that 35% labor accidents with fatalities occurred by traffic, in particular 264 757 workers who lost their lives. This high percentage of workers killed in traffic is due to that there is more than twice the probability of dying in a car accident than in any other type of accident at work, which means that the car accident has one much larger harmfulness.

If we take into account the evolution of the number of accidents with low, traffic is increasingly present in industrial accidents. In this regard, the statistics also show that the total number of deaths by accident in 2010, between 15 and 65, and adjusting to the sections of age available in DGT 2010 Yearbook, 14.2 per cent occurred in a working environment.

The RACE offers a tool of support and management

So that companies can improve the safety of workers in their journeys and their conditions of mobility, the RACE launches the platform for mobility and road safety in enterprises ” so that those responsible for occupational risk prevention to create their own mobility Plan, picking up the measures to take with regard to training and awareness of the worker.

With three years experience forming more than 20,000 workers on Spain, the road RACE Training Department offers advice in the management of mobility plans, including all routes of risk in the enterprise (in itínere and mission). The platform has a web area for specific information.

With this platform for help from the RACE, the company may make a diagnosis of the patterns of labour mobility, as well as help identify groups subject to the plan. Among other actions, the system allows to prevent the main negative factors associated with traffic, with specific guidelines. In turn, offers to adapt the measures to be applied to the reality of each company, continue to monitor them, enhancing the development of a culture of sustainable mobility and prevention.

Besides the advantages posed by improving safety and mobility of workers, notably mobility plans to allow companies to reduce contributions to Social security exist in addition direct aid to create such schemes offered by the Institute for diversification and energy saving (IDAE) managed by each autonomous community.,