Occupational Safety and Health: Models for Sustainability and Risk Prevention

The book addresses the persistent gap between formal compliance with occupational safety and health regulations and the implementation of comprehensive, applicable, and sustainable preventive models. Its objective is to analyze psychosocial, ergonomic, organizational, and technical risks in order to propose explanatory models, diagnostic instruments, and intervention strategies. Methodologically, it brings together applied studies based on documentary, analytical, and propositional approaches, supported by specialized literature, regulatory frameworks, and sector-specific evidence, and complemented by matrices, conceptual models, questionnaires, and tools suitable for subsequent empirical validation.

One of the book’s main strengths is that it represents a collective academic outcome of the work carried out by the Department of Human Resources of the University Center for Economic and Administrative Sciences at the University of Guadalajara (CUCEA-UdeG). This institutional origin reinforces its practical relevance by linking research with real challenges in human resource management, organizational well-being, risk prevention, and workplace sustainability. Rather than being merely a theoretical compilation, the book combines specialized knowledge with proposals that can support decision-making, organizational assessment, and the design of preventive policies.

Chapter 1. Examines professional burnout among medical residents and proposes a psychosocial prevention approach based on NOM-035-STPS-2018.

Chapter 2. Analyzes the relationship between university sustainability, job satisfaction, and the mental health of administrative staff.

Chapter 3. Addresses psychosocial risks in higher education through the DEG-WELL model, oriented toward workplace well-being and organizational prevention.

Chapter 4. Studies risk perception as a workplace competency and offers a critical reassessment of industrial safety in Mexico.

Chapter 5. Examines transformational leadership in response to emerging psychosocial risks associated with automation and artificial intelligence in the automotive sector.

Chapter 6. Analyzes risk factors and musculoskeletal injuries related to manual material handling.

Chapter 7. Proposes a structural causality approach to understanding occupational safety and health in Mexico’s freight transportation sector.

Chapter 8. Examines preventive training and its relationship with the Mexican Social Security Institute’s occupational risk premium through an integrative model for the meat-processing sector.

Chapter 9. Analyzes international standards for mobile cranes as a complement to NOM-006-STPS-2023.

Taken together, the chapters integrate prevention, employee well-being, human resource management, regulatory compliance, responsible productivity, and organizational sustainability from an applied and institutionally grounded perspective.