Psychosocial Risks and Industrial Safety in the Textile Laundries of Pelileo Canton

Abstract

This piece of research was focused on identifying, evaluating and controlling the psychosocial risks in the Industrial Safety of textile laundries,  the level of impact was identified, which contributed to the physical, psychological and emotional well-being of workers, improving their quality of life, increasing productivity and complying with the organizational goals; the population was made up of men and women amounting to sixty-one workers, the age ranged from fifteen to sixty-five years, from different ethnic groups, the standardized Istas 21 Questionnaire of the Union Institute of Labor, Environment and Health Of Spain was used as a methodology. It consists of six sections related to psychosocial risks, at the research levels the descriptive and explanatory levels stand out, we got levels and reference values that allow us to compare with other studies about psychosocial factors. Later, a Guide to Prevent Psychosocial Factors  to improve Industrial Safety in textile laundries was designed, which served as a tool for the training of workers regarding this area, next, the retest with the Standardized Istas 21 Questionnaire was applied, which gave us   different results from those obtained initially; however, it is possible to identify that the sections with the greatest impact on the staff are insecurity about the future and double presence, which maintain considerable values; on the other hand, the sections that responded best to training were Social support and quality of leadership.