The IRSST and Tielmes sign an occupational risk prevention agreement

The Regional Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IRSST) and the Tielmes City Council signed a collaboration agreement on October 20, 2026, to carry out actions regarding occupational health and safety as provided for in the VII Master Plan for the Prevention of Occupational Risks of the Community of Madrid 2025-2028. The agreement was signed by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment and president of the Board of Directors of the IRSST, Rocío Albert López-Ibor, and the mayor-president of Tielmes, Miguel Ángel Barbero Moreno. The text is published in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM) no. 274, dated November 14, 2026, in section I.D of Announcements of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, with the official reference BOCM-20261114-2.

The agreement is based on the regulatory framework that assigns the IRSST the status of managing body for the occupational risk prevention policy in the region, in accordance with Law 23/1997, of November 19, whose article 4.8 entrusts it to support and promote activities of employers and workers and to sign agreements with public entities and social agents. The reference sectoral regulation is Law 31/1995, of November 8, on the Prevention of Occupational Risks, which establishes the principle of collaboration between public administrations.

The origin of the agreement is the VII Master Plan for the Prevention of Occupational Risks 2025-2028, approved by the Governing Council of the Community of Madrid on December 28, 2024, which pursues a dual objective: the continuous improvement of safety, health, and well-being conditions at work and the progressive and significant reduction of occupational accidents. Among its transversal axes is coordination with the region’s city councils as a specific measure, a path that is now materialized in Tielmes.

Technical advice and preventive culture in the municipality

The object of the agreement is to define the collaboration between the Administration of the Community of Madrid, through the IRSST, and the Tielmes City Council, through its departments, to program and support actions to improve safety and health conditions, control or reduce risks, promote new forms of protection, and promote effective prevention structures. The first clause establishes special attention to groups of workers in situations of higher risk and to sectors and companies with the highest accident rates.

The stated purpose is to promote an adequate culture of occupational risk prevention among all workers in the municipality—from both the public and private sectors—and, by extension, among the residents. The recipients include personnel serving the city council, companies located within the municipal boundaries, and self-employed workers.

The planned actions encompass:

• Advice for the effective improvement of safety, health, and wellbeing conditions and the prevention of health damage within the municipal scope.
• Dissemination of technical-regulatory documentation on occupational risk prevention.
• Training and awareness actions to implement a preventive culture.
• Provision of premises or other municipal spaces for information, training, and dissemination activities, subject to the appropriate administrative procedures.
• Collaboration in public dissemination campaigns, with the mandatory use of the logos of the signing administrations.
• Advice on occupational road safety, psychosocial risks and psychosocial mediation protocols, gender perspective, and the organization of temporary events.
• Handling of inquiries from municipal staff and the provision of training, didactic, and editorial resources.

Commitments of each party and monitoring

The Tielmes City Council commits to carrying out awareness and dissemination actions in its territory, contributing to the dissemination of a preventive culture, and collaborating with the IRSST in the execution of the agreed actions. Furthermore, it will publish all information relating to the actions of the agreement on its website within the shortest timeframe permitted by its means. For its part, the IRSST will provide the knowledge and experience of its prevention technicians, handle monitoring and coordination through designated technical personnel, and provide advice and technical support for compliance with regulations. It will also centralize communications from the city council through the institutional address irsst.ayuntamientos@madrid.org.

The signing does not imply direct economic obligations for either party. A monitoring commission is created with one representative from each administration, chaired by the head of the IRSST Management, with a casting vote in the event of a tie, and with an annual ordinary meeting. The validity begins the day after the last electronic signature and extends for four years, renewable by express agreement for up to four additional years. The agreement is governed by Law 40/2015, of October 1, and by Decree 48/2019, of June 10, and is excluded from Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contracts.

The agreement extends the coordination mechanisms between the IRSST and local entities to a municipality of the Community of Madrid, so that companies and workers in Tielmes can access the technical advice and training resources of the regional body at no cost to the municipal coffers. For the residents of the municipality, it means having a stable channel of technical support in preventive matters for the next four years, renewable.

Source: Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM), no. 274, of November 14, 2026, section I.D Announcements (Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment), pp. 13-18 (official reference: BOCM-20261114-2).