Americas

Americas

Code
AME
Region type
Official

Online Work Registration System - Electronic auditing

The "Trabajo Registrado en Línea" (TRL) (Online Work Registration) system is an auditing tool which enables the information that the employer submits in his monthly social security sworn statements to be consulted online, as well as other information from the auditing body's databases, which can then be immediately compared with the economic reality observed during on-site inspections.

Digital labour and social security documents - One-stop shop for data (digital payroll)

A joint project by the Federal Administration of Public Resources (AFIP) and the Ministry of Labour which simplifies employers' obligations and reduces the administrative burden related to "work" and "social security", ensuring the quality and consistency of information.

The application involves uploading a file each month, making it possible to fulfil all obligations in a single act and to obtain the following documents in digital form:

National Healthy Workers Programme

The international community discusses the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, tobacco-related diseases and cancer, among others. NCDs account for 60% of morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. In Argentina, this percentage is even higher, reaching 80%, according to the study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014: Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Country Profiles 2014.

Health and Social Security Commission as a tool to prevent professional risks

Preventing professional risks requires teamwork and network efforts. Our experience as a Mutual Fund that employs 2,233 officials and provides care services of every sort to approximately 83,000 associates indicates that it is essential to work on the continuous improvement of the promotion, prevention, and health care in the workplace.

My Mobile ANSES

In the framework of the policies for technological innovation of management, the resource My Mobile ANSES was created with the purpose of achieving fluid and direct communication via the mobile phone. This application seeks to facilitate and expedite the paperwork and queries that citizens carry out daily. In only one year of implementation, this application reached more than 190,000 total downloads in Android systems, with a rating of 3.72 stars out of 5, assigned by users.

National Prevention Programme for Different Branches of Activity

The National Prevention Programme for Different Branches of Activity formulates policies to prevent occupational risks in a multi-sectoral manner. In terms of risks and the impact of work accidents, the particularities of different branches of activity, both from goods and service industries, has motivated the Superintendency to undertake the initiative of launching this program.

Electronic medical leave system

The social security system in Chile grants workers the right to take leave or to reduce their working day hours when faced with a disease that creates temporary disability. This right is materialized in an instrument called “medical leave”. Formal proceedings to obtain this leave must be carried out in person, filling in paper forms. These proceeding can be cumbersome and inefficient.

Trust-Building Plan: More Surgeries, Less Waiting. A model for managing surgical patients

On December 2012, a total of 32,103 covered patients had been waiting for 432 days (on average) to undergo a surgical procedure, which translated into 50 per cent of dissatisfaction and reliability loss that showed up in several surveys.

Therefore, the top management established - as an institutional policy - a new model called Trust-Building Plan: More Surgeries, Less Waiting, which turns the waiting into a new opportunity to get back the trust of covered patients and associates, and to increase user's satisfaction.