My latest post in the PI&ORP site (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) is titled “Un siglo de cultura preventiva” (One century of safety culture) and is all about a well established concept for decades: safety culture. The post at PI&ORP is Read More …
Tag: risk prevention
The three most important events on safety and health in the world
Last month of November ended a special cycle for occupational safety and health practitioners, namely for Europeans: over the course of the last year, three major world´s events on safety and health were celebrated: the EU-OSHA´s Healthy Workplaces Summit, on Read More …
Uralita and its main secret agent, asbestos
Uralita is a multinational company of building materials. Insulation products, gypsum, pipes and roof tiles are today its main products [1]. The origins of Uralita begins in the early XX century when, in 1907 it stablished as one of the first Read More …
The companies must tell a story
Many experts on Internet marketing and communication say that a good way to create or improve your personal brand on the net consist of telling your experiences, using your very personal style. That is, “to tell your own story” with the objective Read More …
The long-life communication turned into strategy
My last post in the site PI&ORP (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) is titled “Gestión de la PRL: del informe a la comunicación” (OSH management: from the reporting to the communication) and is all about how the new global relationships that Read More …
New tools for the safety and health management (and other areas of organizations)
This week starts a course titled “solving complex problems”, by the Delft University of Technology, on the edX platform. So, this is a course under the MooC method, a satisfactory experience already treated in previous posts. The course Solving Complex Problems addresses complex Read More …
Technical post: impacts analysis applied to safety and health management: identification, prioritization and review
Definition of impact Going again to the GRI sustainability reporting guidelines [1], the term “impacts” of an organization refers to: “[…] significant economic, environmental and social impacts that are: positive, negative, actual, potential, direct, indirect, short term, long term, intended, unintended” Read More …
Technical post: actor analysis applied to safety and health management: identify and prioritize stakeholders
In the latest time, I drafted several post regarding the connection between social responsibility, sustainability strategies and safety and health management within organizations. Be they in this blog or in the posts drafted in the site Prevención Integral, I referred to that Read More …
European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2014: activities and events promoted by the INSHT
Each year, during the calendar week 43, is held the European Week for Safety and Health at Work. In 2014, it will take place from 20 to 26 of october, that is, in two weeks. The European Week for Safety Read More …
OSHwiki, the platform of shared knowledge on occupational safety and health
“OSHwiki is the first web platform which allows users to create, collaborate and share knowledge on occupational safety and health (OSH) in all languages. It’s a new way to network online with the OSH community, aiming to support government, industry and Read More …
The professional specialization in occupational safety and health in the coming years
This week, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) published a study identifying the “potential topics for EU-OSHA’s next large-scale foresight study” [1]. In practice, the study gathers the emerging trends and areas of future concern in OSH during the Read More …
The position of the occupational safety and health within organizations´ sustainability strategy
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 …
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