During the fruitful financial year of 2025, the ORP International Foundation rolled out an ambitious global roadmap of an interdisciplinary nature, which began to take shape on 20 February with technical conferences specifically dedicated to challenges and solutions in occupational health and safety, where the transformative impact of predictive artificial intelligence and big data analysis using ETL processes was discussed in great strategic depth in modern occupational risk management, thus laying the foundations for a year marked by technological innovation applied to human well-being.
This track record of excellence continued in May with a meeting on social awareness and corporate responsibility focused on the relationship between cancer and business, where experts from various fields analysed the protocols needed to facilitate the return to work of cancer patients based on criteria of equity and sustainability. In June, the agenda focused on integrating prevention with gender equality policies, addressing sexual violence as a critical psychosocial risk
The high point of this international deployment materialized with the organisation and resounding success of the 25th ORP International Congress held at the emblematic headquarters in Cartagena de Indias under the inspiring slogan “At Work: One Life, One Planet.” This global event brought together more than 1,800 delegates from 43 different countries to exchange knowledge in more than 200 technical presentations of the highest scientific calibre. It also served as the setting for the presentation of the prestigious ORPHEUS awards, which recognise the work of companies that have integrated a culture of prevention into the DNA of their business management.
Simultaneously with its successes in the Americas, the foundation expanded its influence into the Asian market through the implementation of LEAN ORP Japan, strategically developed in the context of the Global Initiative for Safety, Health and Wellbeing and Expo 2025 Osaka, where the main focus was on on collaborative robotics and the use of exoskeletons to ensure the health of workers in high-tech industrial environments. This line of action was reinforced by the 9th International PRL Congress in Lima, which brought together three thousand professionals in a hybrid format that allowed for the mass dissemination of best practices in leadership and digital transformation.
The academic and talent development aspects also took centre stage during the year thanks to the 4th International Summit in Paraguay, which focused on curriculum reform and technical training in response to new working environments, together with the 4th Employability Forum in Chile, held at the Autonomous University to discuss the necessary reskilling and digital skills that the labour market of the future will demand. These activities were complemented harmoniously in Spain with LEAN ORP Madrid, dedicated to the transition to Industry 5.0 and the importance of psychosocial health in new production models.
To conclude this intense schedule, cutting-edge conferences were held during the last quarter of the year, focusing on stress management and digital disconnection within hybrid work schemes in October, as well as the specialized conference on Zero Absenteeism in November, where success stories demonstrated how data science can transform a traditionally negative indicator into an opportunity to improve operational efficiency, consolidating the ORP International Foundation as the undisputed global benchmark in the promotion of safe and healthy work environments.
PEDRO R. MONDELO
Director, ORP International Foundation
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