Portuguese Abstract: La prevencion de riesgos es una practica empresarial fundamental en el desempeno de las empresas actualmente, dadas las condiciones de competencia. Sin embargo, es un tema dificil de desarrollar e incorporar en la gestion empresarial. Esto es particularmente importante de estudiar cuando se observa en el caso de micro, pequenas, y medianas empresas (mipymes). Por lo anterior, con el objetivo de determinar el nivel de gestion en la prevencion de riesgos en las mipymes, se aplico una metodologia estudio descriptivo de corte transversal, tomando una muestra de 88 empresas productoras de bienes de capital en Santiago de Cali (Colombia). Los datos recolectados se analizaron con un modelo de regresion logistica no condicional, que arrojo como resultado que el compromiso de la direccion, funciones y responsabilidades en las mipymes es totalmente insuficiente, lo que permite concluir que las microempresas gestionan minimamente el riesgo, afectando esto su competitividad. English Abstract: Occupational hazards prevention is a managerial practice, which is currently fundamental to the companies’ performance due to the competition’s conditions. However, this topic is quite difficult to be implemented within the business management activities. Particularly, this is an interesting topic to study in the case of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). For this reason, to determinate the level of managing the prevention of hazards within MSMEs, it was applied a methodology of transversal descriptive approach by taking a sample of 88 formal small firms producers of capital goods in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The data analysis was conducted with a logistic regression model that shows, as a result, the commitment of the direction, functional, and responsibilities level within the MSMEs is insufficient what allow us to conclude that these firms lowly manage the hazards and this influences their competitiveness.