This week is being held the European Sustainable Energy Week. It is an important event in the field of energy and sustainability -including the Brussels´conference as a summit- and embraces a number of interesting activities. Unfortunately, I could´t go to Read More …
Author: David Mairal
Aragon Valley Classic: Healthy Workplaces, the breaking trend already existing in the 1920 decade
Healthy workplaces are those in which workers and managers collaborate to use a continual improvement process to protect and promote the health, safety and well-being of all workers and the sustainability of the workplace [1]. Nowadays, a wide range of specific actions Read More …
The apocalyptic reality of Dan Brown´s Inferno
Dan Brown´s works do not leave indifferent anybody. The enigmatic ambiguity with witch reality and fiction combine in his stories, are source of both admiration and criticism of the author´s career. His last novel is Inferno. Should you have the Read More …
Aragonese version of the blog
Aragonese is a romance language, Aragon´s own language. The number of aragonese speakers ranges between 10.000 and 30.000, geographically concentrated in Alto Aragon, above all. The main transmission way of the Aragonese language is as mother tongue, passed down from parents Read More …
Inverse infrastructures, anti system people leading the way
Look at this photo: On the one hand, there is a paved bike lane. It is a part of a biggest urban network which follows a project. The network is public owned and its management is centralized in higher Read More …
A collaboration of mutual benefit (win-win)
Days ago, Ailsa Brown contacted me on behalf on the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) to chat about the collaboration established between the Agency and this blog. From that conversation among other ones hold with some Read More …
Jánovas, the evicted village aiming to reborn – Part II
[… this post is a continuation of the previous entry…] Mr. Antonio Espinosa, from Casa Agustín (family nickname), is more or less 65. His approximate age may be deduced from some details he told me last saturday in Jánovas: in Read More …
Jánovas, the evicted village aiming to reborn – Part I
The sad story of the latests decades of Jánovas (Chánovas in Aragonese lenguaje) hangs on the wall of one of the houses that remain partially standing in this village belonging to the municipality of Fiscal, in the Aragonese region of Sobrarbe. Read More …
Sustainability reporting, goodbye conspiracies
Apple, that great manufacturer company of amazing devices aiming to improve the world… According to a trustable source that I can not now unveil, during 2013 were evidenced at least the following breaches in the facilities of the Apple´s suppliers all Read More …
EurOSHM and EurOSHT certifications as a response to the professional labyrinth of occupational safety and health in Europe
“[…] These requirements (directive 89/391 on OSH) have been enacted in different forms into the national legislation of all member states, causing a lack of transparency and recognition of competences and qualifications for OSH managers and technicians” [1] That is Read More …
The unceasing professional specialization
Fortunately, work does´t uses to be as the Battle of Thermopilae or anything like that. This doesn´t prevent the story of Leonidas´and his 300 Spartans may be used many times as an example of effort and determination when difficulties come and, Read More …
This week, ORP2014 congress in Zaragoza: a flagged appointment within occupational safety and health
Next May 21, 22 and 23rd -that is, between the day after tomorrow and Friday- will be celebrated the ORP2014 congress, in the Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza (venue EXPO), under the slogan ”Prevention in the XXI century business: a key Read More …
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