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 …
Tag: safety culture
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 …
A collaborative network on environmental and human safety of nanotechnology
If you use to read this blog, you will have notice that health, safety and environmental of nanotechnology is in recent times a recurrent topic. Apart from my own interest for nanoEHS, an important reason for its outstanding presence is 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: 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 …
Do we exchange our jobs for one day?
Days ago, a workmate brought a comment on one of my professional activities, occupational safety and health: “the think is that, your work has a lot to do with common sense“. It didn´t surprised me too much since I have Read More …
Creativity is the essence of innovation
That is the conclusion drawn after knowing these two inventions. The first one is a ban I watched while walking along the streets of Amsterdam during a travel in october 2012. I call it the generator ban because it is Read More …
Aragon Valley @EU-OSHA´s Healthy Workplaces Summit 2013
Next 11 and 12 november will take place in Bilbao the closing event of Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2012-13 “Working Together for Risk Prevention”. I will attend to it, as a part and also a crowning moment of the media partnership Read More …
Finland, the best place to study… and work
It is enough to do a search in the Internet with the term “Finland education system” to get lots of links (here a random example) highlighting the success of the Finnish system of education, with 98% of free public colleges Read More …
Safety culture at school
This is Napo. He is a cartoon character created by EU-OSHA, among other agencies. Napo loves his work, even when he sometimes finds not very well done things at workplace and must invent solutions to solve them. For sure, Napo got a Read More …
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