In accordance with the LPRL, reformed by Law 54/2003, the UB has a specific structure, which is integrated into its organization, consisting of its own Prevention Service which is responsible for carrying out the preventive activities to guarantee the adequate protection of the safety and health of the personnel, by means of the advising and the assistance to the different organs from the UB, to the personnel, to his / her representatives.
The functions performed by the Prevention Service are the following:
- The design, implementation and application of an Occupational Risk Prevention Plan that allows the integration of prevention in the UB.
- The assessment of risk factors that may affect the safety and health of staff in the terms provided for in Article 16 of the LPRL.
- The planning of preventive activity and the determination of priorities for adopting preventive measures, and monitoring their effectiveness.
- Staff information and training.
- The provision of first aid and emergency plans.
- Monitoring the health of staff in relation to the risks arising from work.
- The elaboration of the annual report of activities in the matter of security and health at work.
- All other functions assigned to it by the regulations.
This Prevention Service assumes the four preventive disciplines provided for in RD 39/1997: occupational medicine, safety, hygiene, and ergonomics and psychosociology.