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 …
Tag: social responsibility
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 …
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 …
A revolution in occupational safety and health, my last post on Prevención Integral
My last post on Prevención Integral -the site by the Specific Research Centre for the Improvement and Innovation at Companies (CERpIE) of the Technical University of Catalunya- is entitled “Sostenibilidad, responsabilidad, seguridad” and is all about the disruptive character of 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …