The 6th International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention has been, from every point of view, the Conference of INTERACTION. Interaction carried out on different levels: among scientists, prevention technicians and professionals, public administrations, and cultures. We are sure that the result in terms of knowledge and experiences exchange will last in time.

The assumption that occupational risk prevention fits in Social Responsibility is a main priority in Public Administrations: Public Administrations, in all its spheres of action, must develop socially responsible policies. Policies that must show in the procedures applied in the different departments (horizontal coordination) and in the different levels of action (vertical coordination), not only autonomous but also to local level, in such areas as the contracting of services, public investments, purchases and provisioning, transport, etc.

Allow me to invoke the motto of the Congress, "Commitment towards prevention: a corporate responsibility" and allow me to suggest equally an extension: This commitment must be above all the result of social responsibility of the Administrations. A result that only will be possible to obtain with the participation of all: social Agents, employers (management), technicians and scientists, public Administrations and the involvement of the main protagonist: the worker.

The organizational challenges that were raised in this Conference were important and with the help of all they have been settled in conditions of high quality. Let me to give you some meaningful figures on the variety and quantity of activities developed during these three days:

• Thematic Variety with 9 itineraries on 21 areas of work
• Instrumental Variety with 56 presentations (papers), 36 workshops, 150 communications and 105 scientific - technical posters.
• Documentary Variety with 368 technical and scientific articles included in the Conference Proceedings.

But the most important diversity has been, undoubtedly, the relative to 1602 participants from 40 countries. The coordination of all these elements has been an exploit whose success has been possible thanks to the planning and long term bet of the Consellería of Presidency of the Autonomous Government of Galicia, of the will and professionalism of the organizers and, finally, of all of you participants in this Conference.

An aspect that sure that has gone unnoticed to none of you is the presence of organizations.

Organizations of scientific, and technical areas, and of the Public Administration.

And especially representatives of social and managerial agents. An advance is unthinkable and impossible without the intervention and reciprocity of social agents. In the case of companies, it is necessary to underline that these are the people in charge of facilitating quality prevention, assigning the necessary resources for its correct execution, and considering the diversity of genre, cultures and needs.

In what follows, please allow me to summarize and to synthesize the content of the Congress in the nine proposed itineraries: Work Safety, Hygiene and Health Surveillance, Psychosociology and Organizational Climate, Ergonomics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Management of Prevention, and in particular three specially sensitive itineraries for the Galician society: Construction, Fishing, Agriculture, and work- road Security.

• Construction: An evolution of the different models for the evaluation of risks in this sector has been shown, departing from uni-causal models up to coming to the most modern models of the "knot of bow tie" kind. Likewise, the application of practical methods for the accomplishment of observations of the work orientated to the improvement of the indicators of accidentability in the construction sector have been discussed and showed. At the same time, the multi-culturality and diversity of the workers and how settling the difficulties of communication by means of posters and safety signs have been born in mind.

• Fishing and Agriculture: In agriculture, the relevance of being aware of the great consumption of harmful pesticides for the ecosystem and the human being in this sector, both as for dose and as for frequency and types of products in use. The prevention of the risks associated with these products must be a priority. The sector of fishing is especially important in Galicia not only from the labour point of view, but also culturally. It is a sector with quite high siniestrality numbers, with incorporation of workforce from diverse countries and with different degrees of professional qualification, with a changeable remuneration depending on the amount of fishing, extensive days of work, and the lack of a social regulation in prevention of occupational risks, particularly in the coastal fishing; all this turning out to be in quite high levels of injuries: 76% of all fishermen have had an accident at work with absence from work, particularly some muscle-skeletal injury.

• Work- road Safety: The technological and ergonomic development of cabins of European trains must be adapted to the needs of drivers of all countries. Before implementing technological changes in the cabins of new trains, it is necessary to carry out real field trials. Likewise, it is necessary to check the current standards that regulate the characteristics of ergonomic design in the cabins of trains, and the limits of the future norm UIC have been outlined. Additionally, studies realized on the cabins of driving of the urban buses have been presented. As for traffic accidents they can be considered to be a lack of rationality related to the learning, the complexity, strange events and to human limited capacity. To prevent accidents it is necessary to apply individualized behavioral measures along with general character measures through diverse ways of information of the consequences of accidents. It is equally necessary to unify languages and information from the records of road safety with the records of work safety. Finally, there appears the possibility of considering the vehicles to be tools of work.

• Work Safety: The differences in the ways of preventing the accidents among the different countries of the European Union and also of the South American arch, the United States and the rest of the world, are becoming closer. Especially, in the United States, the future of the profession goes tied to prevention in the phase of design. The use of computer tools allows the introduction of models to try to process big amounts of information of accidents that give information of interest for its prevention. A prevention that must bear the peculiarities of small enterprises in mind, not only the innate difficulties to them, but also their advantages. Finally, globalization makes it necessary to consider also the diversity of workers and contexts in the area of safety.

• Hygiene and Health Surveillance: the permeability between absenteeism, work satisfaction and the presence of risks for the safety and the health of the workers has been revealed. On the other hand, the integration of the disciplines of safety, ergonomics and Psychosociology and industrial hygiene, with health surveillance and supervision, has been pointed out as a solution to the demands of the new work organizations.

• Psychosociology and Work Climate: In a line so opened and so submitted to debate as this one, important aspects appeared for the reflection: first, is it necessary to think that prevention must go far beyond responsibility?; secondly, there is an undoubted need to consider the different scenarios that prevention has passed through in each of our countries. To accept the new methodological and conceptual challenges related to the evaluation and management of climate and safety culture. The fundamental idea that the person is not only a factor of risk but especially a safety factor and the need to adapt the theoretical approaches to the reality of our organizations, so that the climate and the culture are the engine of a real change and do not remain only in the conceptual area.

• Ergonomics: The impact of a lack of consideration of the ergonomic aspects at work is the reason of the majority of the accidents and occupational diseases in all developed countries. The knowledge of preventive practices in the area of the physical ergonomics in all the sectors of the productive activity, particularly in such careless sectors as fishing, agriculture, construction, hospitals and hostelling and catering business (hotel management), they extend the frame of action of the expert ergonomist beyond his traditional area in the industrial sector. The discussion of new techniques and new methodologies, developed in Spain, Italy, Holland, France and the United States, appear as a priority for the preventive intervention; in this Congress tested computer tools for the correct implementation of these techniques have been provided.

• Corporate Social Responsibility: As was revealed in the inaugural conference, companies are getting bigger and powerful, but at the same time, they are more vulnerable to the scrutiny of the stakeholders interested in its management; which has given place to the development of Corporate Social Responsibility, in which the dimension of the occupational risks achieves special relevancy. The need to consider the social aspects not only in management but also in the design of the environments of work, applying global approaches redounds to less occupational risks and to a substantial improvement of the indicators of impact.

• Management of Prevention: the relevancy of the legal aspects in the preventive management have been outlined and, particularly, in the penal treatment not only of the infractions but also of the recklessness of businessmen, technical staff and workers in all countries and concretely in Spain, where legislative changes are expected in the short term derived from new European Directives.

On the other hand, the initiatives already introduced in many industrialized countries in relation with the bonus of the insurance of accidents and occupational diseases (bonus-malus systems) are pointed out as a medium-term reality in the Spanish legislation according to the specified in the Spanish Strategy 2007-2012 and its effects will be undoubtedly beneficial for the safety and health of the workers.

It would be impossible to synthesize, beyond these lines, the content of 36 workshops, 150 communications/papers and 105 posters. But I do not want to finish this paragraph without mentioning the two works that have been an object of recognition in this Congress.

- Award to the best paper, to Mr. Gabriel García Acosta, teacher of the National University of Colombia for the work "Ten years of ergonomics in the Bank of the Republic: in favor of the health and productivity"

- Award to the best poster, to Mr. Carlos Ruiz Frutos of the University of Huelva "Work conditions, work and health precariousness in the immigrant workers of Huelva".

I do not want to end without being grateful to the organization, to the referees, social agents, companies and participants in general for their presence and collaboration in this Conference. Gratefulness that I feel from this Atlantic front of the city that is a good sample of a continuous evolution and that in new appointments we will see remodeled with the movement of activities to the port.

Finally, a request: That the spirit of ORP2008-A Coruña sinks in into the occupation of each and every one of us. You can be sure that a part of this spirit already has remained in this city and in the Galician people.

Thank you very much to all.

Organizing Committee ORP 2008. Official website ORP'2008 Conference.