About the Journal

The Revista Colombiana de Salud Ocupacional is a peer-reviewed journal. It follows the editorial guidelines and adjusts the editorial process as proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (http://www.icmje.org/). Additionally, it includes ethical considerations to ensure a transparent editorial process (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/), so it follows the recommendations of the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org). The members of the editorial committee and the editorial process have complete independence from the University (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/journalowners-and-editorial-freedom.html).

                                                                                                                                        Articles submitted to the RCSO are evaluated by the Turnitin system for plagiarism detection and submitted for peer evaluation according to the principles established for peer review (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles -and-responsibilities / responsibilities-in-the-submission-and-peer- peview-process.html).

 

The article must be submitted to the journal directly to the Open Journal System platform (http: //www.revistasojs.unilibrecali. Edu.co/index.php/rcso/) where the author must create an account and select the author option in order to submit the article.

The Master's Degree in Safety and Health at Work of the Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia and the research group Esculapio, edit this Journal in order to strengthen the visibility of Colombian and Latin American intellectual production and consolidate a support service for the scientific community in terms of improving intellectual production in the area of Occupational Safety and Health.

The objective of the RCSO journal is to promote research in the field of Occupational Safety and Health and increase knowledge through the publication of original research articles, reviews and other information of high interest in the field.

The research lines of greatest interest are: Safety and Health at Work; Psychosocial factors in the health-work relationship; Occupational and Environmental Hygiene; Psychosociology of Work; Promotion of Healthy Environments and Prevention of Occupational Risks; Social norms for the development of the social state of law; Management, Organization and Management of Safety and Health at Work; Occupational Medicine, Labor Exposure and Industrial Hygiene; Industrial safety, Ergonomics; and other topics related to occupational health. The authors are free to submit articles in other areas not considered here, as long as they are of the full interest of the Occupational Safety and Health audience.

The Journal publishes short original articles, reviews, letters to the editor, reflection articles, and event memoirs.