Yolanda Diaz forms commission of experts on instability and mental health: “Labor can not get sick”

Second Vice President and Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz presented a panel of experts this Thursday on the impact of occupational safety on mental health. The event agreed with Más País to implement labor reform in the negotiations, for which its spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, participated in the act, as well as several experts who are part of the committee. The 12-member body will prepare a report on the issue affecting occupational health in the next six months.

Diaz said jobs need not be a “place of suffering” as is the case in many cases today, he warned. “We live in an anxious world,” said the minister, who called for an analysis through a commission of experts and took appropriate action.

Inigo Erejon, in his first act with Yolanda Diaz – an important milestone in the Vice President’s “listening process” – recognized the Ministry of Labor, together with its parliamentary group, for fulfilling this commitment and “taking the measure in its own way”.

The More Country MP recalled its commitment to make visible mental health problems, which he said would be achieved gradually, but now needed “less blows to the back and more public policy”. Investing in mental health from the public system as well as eliminating pedagogy and stigma across society. “This should reach cashiers, stocks, telemarketing,” he said.

The presentation ceremony was attended by three members of the commission, writer and essayist Remedio Zafra, clinical psychiatry specialist Belen Gonzalez Callado of the Madrid Mental Health Association, and Jam Quintero, Professor of Labor and Social Security Law. Carlos Aranci, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (INSST), also took part, predicting that specific mental health measures would be considered in the institute’s next strategy negotiations.

“Work problems come from psychiatric consultations”

Joan Benach, a public health professor at Pompeii Fabra University, who will be the commission coordinator, took part in the event via video, in which she argued that specialist analysis would serve to “provoke change”. Legislation ”, improvement of work centers, as well as greater commitment of public resources in this regard.

Belen Gonzalez Callado warned of the “paradox” that problems at work end in psychiatric counseling instead of solving them at work. The specialist called for prevention, to avoid the psychosocial risks and mental health problems caused by these diseases, to act before you have to bandage. At a time when the intervention of mental health professionals is needed, Gonzalez Callado called for enhanced public health: “We see more patients than we should have.”

For his part, essayist Remedio Zafra introduced a more reflective vision, from “critical thinking,” in which he hopes to contribute to a panel of experts, he said. Volatility, which also affects skilled professionals, is also very much present in the work logic that goes with technology. “Everything is going at full speed,” he said, “with the feeling that we can not stop. Technology, for example, is a working tool for many today, “but it comes with us, when we finish today, we do not stop.”

Gemma Quintero warned that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals addresses health from many perspectives, as well as mental and work, which can be a roadmap and help in committing measures and initiatives to the Commission with a decent work logic.