La prevención de riesgos laboraleslos problemas de interpretación entre las infracciones laborales y el delito.

Abstract

Occupational accidents are a social problem that requires a solution. The prevention of occupational risks has had a special normative development. The legislator aims to provide an immediate response to the high numbers of occupational accidents, which, together with the important interests at stake, has justified the administrative sanctioning and criminal intervention. Both branches of formal social control aim at preventing offending behaviour in the workplace. In order to avoid a penalty gap, we find overlaps in the criminal and administrative order that make the task of the legal interpreter difficult. Hence thye need to provide guidelines for interpretation to facilitate the application and effectiveness of the law.