Leather Cluster Employees Safety and Health at Work: Risk Management in Bogota’s Restrepo Neighborhood

Abstract:

It is important to highlight that the leather goods market is a source of economic and social development, but day after day it is carried out in a very fast, little flexible and low price production, since 2009 the sector has had a financial crisis that has helped non-growth of microenterprises and that is reflected in wages and jobs, according to estimates by UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) Agency that promotes industrial development, socializes that to reduce poverty estimates that The leather goods sector employs 4.2 million people, however the government and other sectors in the world point to 6 million people who work in leather and 7.1 million in the footwear and leather goods sector, (International Labor Organization, 2014). In Bogotá Colombia, the collection was carried out through an instrument, risk matrix evaluating 129 companies and through a questionnaire to 40 workers their knowledge, skills and practice in work activities, the problem that originates from the research is the change of the norm and the delay of the MSMEs to comply with the decree 1072 of 2015, in having systems a management in safety and health at work that improves the model to avoid occupational disease.The result of the investigation is to show all the risk factors in which the leather goods of the city of Bogotá are.