There is no human activity without risks, especially at work. Therefore, employers should be interested to minimize risks in the workplace as is reasonable (obligation of means) instead of transferring the risks to workers. This kind of commitment is essential to fulfilling its obligation as a guarantor of the workers’ health and safety (obligation of result). Understanding this double duty is the key to solving many conflicts about employers’ liability for workplace accidents. It’s good to comply with the law, but it’s not enough. The legal is not necessarily the preventive, nor the ethical. In the prevention of occupational hazards, the law is the base, but not the optimal. We propose a new Employers’ Liability for Workplace Accidents System, of a quasi-objective type. This new System must be emancipated from the Civil Code rules on responsibility, foreseen for parties w...