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 …
Category: safety and health
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 …
Aragon Valley Classic: Occupational safety campaigns at the beginning of the 20th century
Just one month ago, on april 7th, the last OSH campaign of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), on stress and psychosocial risks, was launched. This is a recent and outstanding case of what a today´s Read More …
Stress and psychosocial risks in the new 2014-15 EU-OSHA´s Healthy Workplaces Campaign
Yesterday morning was launched in Brussels the last European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EUOSHA) 2014-15 campaign, dedicated to the stress management and psychosocial risks at work. Stress and psychosocial risks First of all, let´s clarify concepts. Occupational Read More …
Asbestos, nanotechnology and a “world without end”
As a consequence of the peculiar circumstance described in this post on asbestos published weeks ago, I am having several discussions starting with the paradoxical situation surrounding this material for a long time. Later, in a given time during the conversation, Read More …
An alternative to consider: Gas detection as a service
Work environment´s monitoring is the more determining technical measure of those included in a procedure for working in confined spaces (1). It is not more or less important than any other technical measures to establish (access and stay means, workplace ventilation, Read More …
Clint Eastwood: Something to do with life
One of my favourite movies are the ones making up the “Dollars Trilogy“, the film series consisting in three films directed by Sergio Leone in the 1960 decade: A fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Read More …
Aragon Valley Classic: The time when sanitary engineering recommended the asbestos
It doesn´t matter how much histories recur, it continues being surprising how brilliant and welcomed innovations in the beginning, become over time into something insignificant or even dangerous and forbidden. Asbestos is a clear example of it. As well, an Read More …
Nanotechnology as a disruptive factor in Occupational Safety and Health, Environment
“In the long term, nanotechnology will demand a revolutionary re-thinking of occupational health and safety”. John Howard, MD, NIOSH. John Howard is the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the U.S.. This words are Read More …
Managing stress and psychosocial risks at work, in the next EU-OSHA´s campaign
Stress and psychosocial risks are the second most frequently reported work-related health problem in Europe; Along with other psychosocial risks, stress is thought to account for more than a half (50-60%) of all lost working days. These are just a Read More …
Aragon Valley Classic: Ferrocarril Central de Aragón´s train accident in Luco (Teruel, Aragón), 1904
This is a classic entry on the catastrophe suffered in the summer of 1904 by a train from the Ferrocarril Central de Aragón company, while travelling towards Calatayud from Valencia, which was the regular itinerary of this historic railway. It Read More …
Occupational Safety and Health in 2014
One of the most expected predictions in one of my professional fields -risk prevention- for 2013 failed: last year the new European Strategy on Safety and Health at Work was not renewed. This drove to a deep criticism to relevant authorities, Read More …
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