Last week I got the certificate for the last course at the Delft University of Technology I completed through the edX platform. The course is titled “Solving complex problems” and is about some analytics tools for the decision making and solutions Read More …
Tag: sustainability
If the mayor of Madrid says stupidities, it is not the fault of the Azores anticyclone
We are witnessing these days an event that is becoming a classic in Spain every Winter: the extraordinary concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere of the largest urban areas. The pollutant that is triggering the alarms and exceeding the legal Read More …
Overview of the year 2014 in #sustainability, #CSR, #environment and #OSH based on the blog
This blog is about occupational safety and corporate environment and, for the own development of these disciplines, also extends its scope to sustainability and social responsibility of the organizations. For me, the blog is basically a way of learning and Read More …
What can be learned from Uralita´s passivity in relation to a complex problem
Uralita is a multinational company of building materials. Insulation products, gypsum, pipes and roof tiles are today its main products. The company is present in over 50 countries with a workforce of 2,550 employees [1]. In Spain, the company´s name was traditionally Read More …
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 …
Conclusions of the thermal confort assessment of enclosures in winter and summer
My latest post in the PI&ORP site (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) is titled “Confort térmico en invierno: cálculo y variables más eficientes sobre las que actuar” (“Thermal confort in winter: calculation and the most efficient factors to act on”) and is all about 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 …
Smart City Expo: the cities of sustainability, responsibility, safety and health
This week was held in Barcelona (18-20 November) the Smart City Expo congress, a world leading congress on smart solutions […] for cities, companies and experts [1] In practice, due to the number and features of the solutions shown in the congress, a more Read More …
Do governors apply the analytical methods in the decision-making?
Because of professional reasons, I am becoming acquainted with a wide range of tools and methods used in decision-making, problems solving and the establishment of strategies processes in complex environments. Causal modelling, actor analysis, goal trees and means-end diagrams, problem diagrams, decision Support, score cards, 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 …
#PabellónJoséLuisAbós, inverse infrastructure
Last October 20th the sad new of the passing away of José Luis Abós –CAI Zaragoza´s head coach- broke. Coach “A” leaves an example of professional and personal essential values. Should you want to know the story of one person who 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 …
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