La autoprotección frente a los riesgos del trabajo ha demostrado, en los últimos años, constituir un procedimiento sencillo, útil, de amigable comprensión y de fácil empleo por los propios trabajadores de base, a quienes va dirigido.
PERSIST LTDA. (www.persist.cl) comenzó a trabajar en el Método PREMAC a fines de la década de los ochenta. La demanda de los Técnicos de Seguridad y de los Expertos en Prevención hacia los Psicólogos specialists in human labor was clear: it required a form of intervention that would facilitate the increase in workers' own responsibility. Preventionists could not keep acting as an inspector or police for safety. The aim was to enhance and develop self motivation specific to each individual to act with caution.
early work of psychologist Dr. Lopez-Mena to respond to this demand was made in conjunction with his esteemed colleague, who died prematurely, D. Nicholas Petrasic. These basic schemes were used and passed out shortly afterwards.
Later in 1997, López-Mena and Correa, S. published the first report on Self applied to the Occupational Safety in IST Magazine, a publication specializing in disseminating studies on Occupational Risk Prevention. It contained a theoretical model applied to self-Safety.
From the outset it was decided to use the term "self " rather than the popular term "emotional intelligence , for different reasons. Between them, because the recent publicity of this term, emotional intelligence, when in fact he already had many years of use among professional psychologists, there was a sudden interest, but rather business, by offering seminars, courses and workshops on emotional intelligence , especially among non-specialists psychologists. These people offered Emotional Intelligence for Leadership, The Work for the teamwork and what it would be necessary. These practitioners of professional intrusion used in its training programs, a confusing mix of concepts without a valid methodology and without clear objectives, other than for making money, using as bait their Workshops, an expression such as Emotional Intelligence , because it had become popular and known. Thus discredited this expression and in their eagerness to enlarge to any labor, emptied of content. Therefore, PREMAC, is not the same as Emotional Intelligence, but teaches workers to temper their emotions, so useful and demonstrable.
Another interesting reason to discard the term Emotional Intelligence and use instead of self derives from the fact that self includes, as mentioned, the emotions, but not only them, because the components of behavior self-controlled are at least four, that identifies and manages PREMAC.
Finally, the expression "emotional intelligence" might suggest in a given, you either have or not have, when in fact the self has different areas trainable when properly identified and are used properly, knowledge of the professional psychologist.
Technically, the Self is a sub area of \u200b\u200bApplied Behavior Analysis, a body of knowledge derived from the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Another thing is that all these concepts in an appropriate format and deprofessionalized be released for use by prevention professionals. This is precisely the purpose of PREMAC Method.
PREMAC The key objective is to make employees accountable for their own safety behaviors work, reducing the likelihood of accidents or injuries, by tempering their emotions, restraint of impulsivity, improving their social skills and control of irrational ideas about the causes of accidents.
As shown in the figure above, the method PREMAC, consists of four steps: a) Identification own behaviors that present a challenge for safe work; b) Functional Assessment of these behaviors to assess frequency or severity; c) know and apply techniques of self and finally d) achieve the goal.
PREMAC Method has a version in Castilian and the other in Portuguese. Is in the process of translation into English of this method. Normally
companies interested in improving the safe conduct at work, acquire a license to use Métdo for a period of time (between 5 to 10 years) that includes the training of internal consultants to the method and all materials by periodic improvements to the methodology.
The interested reader may review the work published in the Journal of Psychology, University of Chile, when the author was Professor of Work Psychology at that institution. This document can be obtained at the following address: http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=26409104
On the other hand, more practical information on how to obtain and apply the method PREMAC in the company, and the results obtained so far in different countries, is in www.persist.cl, or you can consult capacitacion@persist.cl.
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