Neuroseguridad aplicada a la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales

Abstract

Neurosafety is the use of the Neuroscience, and all its branches, for an Occupational, Health & Safety purpose (OHS). Many methods, that come from cognitive neuroscience, allow to understand how brain works while subjecting a human being to stimuli. One of these methods is EEG: thanks to the interpretation of the encephalogram, the mental load, the fatigue (when using the ERPs as "mental chronometer"), the performance and its relation to mistakes, etc. can be evaluated. Because of that, it is a very useful method for neuroergonomics. Another method developed by cognitive neuroscience is fMRI, which allows us to analyse the most internal parts of the brain, some of which have an important role in processing emotions, a key factor for neurocoaching, which seeks to understand how brain works with motivational practices. Due to the number of tools, this paper tries to review different methods for its application to the prevention of occupational risks and the creation of a model