As time goes by and I observe certain occurrences, I get more and more convinced that among all the possible environments throughout the organizations, the sustainability strategies are becoming the ideal habitat for occupational safety and health. I am not the only one who thinks Read More …
Category: safety and health
Safety inspection to a singular construction site
One of my hobbies in my spare time is to build a scale model railway (N scale, 1:160). Railroads, locomotives, freight and passengers wagons, elements of the railway infrastructure,… but also to create a landscape combining handcraft works and assembly kits of specific elements Read More …
An enterprise emerged thanks to the blog
In this post, I will tell you about an initiative in which I am quite focussed on. It is all about the establishment of my own consulting enterprise. I will also explain you one special feature: the enterprise is a direct consequence Read More …
Aragon Valley Classic: “zoqueta”, the traditional agriculture´s most symbolic personal protective equipment
“Zoqueta“ is the name given in my country to a wedge shaped hollow piece of carved wood, so that four fingers of one hand fit inside. In the past, it was used by farmers as a sickle´s accessory to cut Read More …
The age of the sustainable prevention
This week is being held the XX Congress on Safety and Health at Work. This is one of the most important worldwide events on labour risk prevention. It is organized, every three years, by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Read More …
How to assess the thermal comfort and how to address the most efficient factors
One of the works in which I am currently involved, for the Research Centre for the Development and Innovation in Enterprises, of the Technical University of Catalonia (CERpIE-UPC), consist of testing applications for diverse uses. Afterwards, we draft a review Read More …
Aragon Valley Classic: Railroad Surveillance Regulation, 1894, Central Catalan Railway Company
The special affection I have for the railway comes from being a high cost effective mean of transportation also meeting an environmental efficiency and that contributes to the territories balance, even in the most adverse cases [1]. In a word, sustainability. Read More …
Sustainability strategies, the ideal habitat for safety and health
If i´d had to start from zero to develop the safety and health duties in an organization, It is clear to me which should be the path to follow: to develop a sustainability strategy. A proper sustainability strategy brings as consequence Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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