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Participation in matter of Safety and Health at Work is a right of Venezuelan workers enshrined in the national legislation and international conventions ratified by the Republic. This article shows an approximation to a case study, in which it propitiated an approach with a group of workers in a social production company (SPC) in order to interpret the social representations that assign these workers to the participation in safety and health at work. It was used a comprehensiveinterpretation epistemic vision, under qualitative approach and phenomenological design. The speech of the actors revealed the existence of two figures of participation: The Council of Workers and the Delegates of Prevention; highlighting that the first has not observed a favorable performance to the promotion of safety and health at work and only the Delegates of Prevention have assumed this responsibility, but with very little support from the General Direction of the Company. The final discussion focuses on the social representations of workers about participation as a disappointment, by virtue of that has not translated into effective practices to ensure dignified and safe conditions at work. In synthesis, the context of the studied SPC has not been favorable for the participation of the workers in the field of safety and health at work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]