Pope Francis touches the sky with his Laudato si´encyclical

Last Thursday 18 May was released in the City Vatican the encyclical letter Laudato si´ on the care of our common home, by the pope Francis. This pope´s statement may cause you a sort of confusion, surprise, leave you speechless. In Read More …

Communication as a strategic management tool within any organization

When we talk about communication from a professional point of view, we use to relate it automatically to that sort of skills that enable us to interact with other people such as the ability to perform a presentation to a Read More …

The #nanomaterials´ path is like #asbestos´ way, even in the manners

There is moment in almost any discussion about nanotechnology and safety, in which arises the recurring comparison between nanomaterials and asbestos. It is not about a mere comparison from the point of view of materials science and engineering, of course, but Read More …

Evidences of an #OSH in the strategic level of the organizations

In recent times -in a scale that may be measured even in months- the safety and health discipline is facing a pattern already posed in a number of fields in the organizations according to which, a new management model starts Read More …

Tesla, a paradigm of disruption and a threat to weak states

Tesla´s home battery released last April 30 gathers many features to become a disruptive milestone from several points of view. From the product´s point of view, the Tesla batt provides an added value out of the reach of the existing Read More …

The economic dimension of sustainability

There is a widespread tendency to connect sustainable development and sustainability with the impact of certain systems or activities on the environment in its respective sphere of influence. When you make a search of images in Google under the term “sustainability”, Read More …

Materiality and economy, two approaches for safety and health management within organizations

Weeks ago, I had the privilege of writing an article in the May edition of Safety Management, the magazine of the British Safety Council, one of the worldwide leader and most long-established organizations in the field of safety and health. To open the Read More …

To understand the information and communication technologies, a key objective

My last article in the “Healthy Workplaces” site of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is titled Project Safety culture from school”, closing the loop [1] and shows, in the one hand, the overall reach of the project Read More …

Tesla, a disruptive milestone in the use of the energy

Last Thursday, April 30, this happened in Los Angeles, USA: It´s the official launch event of the Tesla´s “Powerwall” home energy storage system. “Powerwall is a home battery that charges using electricity generated from solar panels, or when utility rates Read More …

#LindaNO: “the biggest environmental and pollutant chemical disaster in Europe”

This entry is a sad but necessary review I want it to remain recorded in this blog, as repository of one of the most serious environmental disasters happened in Europe in the latest times. Some say it is the most Read More …