Psychosocial Risk Factors at Work: The Legal Compliance Model in Mexico

Abstract

In 2016, the draft Official Mexican Standard was generated that responded to the guidelines on psychosocial risk at work, through the National Advisory Committee for Standardization of Safety and Health at Work. The Federal Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, and 5, section III, and 24 of the Internal Regulations of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, state that, for NOM035-STPS-2018 (Official Mexican Standard of the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare of the Government of Mexico), on Psychosocial Risk Factors at Work, the objective should be to establish the elements to identify, analyze and prevent psychosocial risk factors, as well as to promote a favorable organizational environment in the workplace. Results of a design and proposal of intervention instrumentation to facilitate the organizational diagnoses that allow determining the roadmap of the implementation and compliance with the official Mexican norm. Conclusion: is a methodology with the appropriate instruments generates an efficient process of legal compliance.