Disorganized emerging company is not a legal form of enterprise, or a denomination disseminated by government agencies, not even a trend that emerged from the public, but I could not think of another name for a title referring to a type of organization that is real: organizations that cater negatively to globalization and technological advancement.
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Weeks ago, the prestigious publication on the environment and workplace safety, EHS Today, has once again put on the table a controversy that arises from time to time and anywhere in the world: the content of TV campaigns on the prevention of occupational risks released by agencies. This is done by reminding us of a
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1. Is an exposure to nanomaterials in the workplace possible? Yes. More than 1,300,000 products available on the market incorporate nanomaterials that encompass many productive fields: electronics, building materials, textiles, cosmetics, food, automotive, cookware … and so on. It is known that nanotechnology has an labour impact on workers. 2. Is there an obligation to
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These weeks, some workmates and I are immersed in creating an international user-guide on OSH for workers moved to certain countries in the World. We started with countries belonging to the so-called emerging markets, since they are a common objective of lots of our clients. Thanks to this study, I´ve been noticing that occupational safety
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There are two kinds of innovation, incremental and disruptive one. Incremental innovation improves a product within some limits more or less expected but doesn’t change a sector or market. Disruptive one introduces some values that exceed unexpectedly the established system of the sector, leaving it obsolete and threatening its existence. Extending the plane view, these
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Confess it, the name surprised you. E-Nomad, an electronic nomad… So, this is name for a new king of worker come out of a work environment full of new devices, apps, services, communication networks, machines. E-Nomad is the “b” side of the massive establishment of information and communication technologies in the world of work. Properly
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As part of the International Risk Prevention Guidebooks project we are doing in Prevencontrol, I attended weeks ago to the conference “Internationalization and Risk Prevention” organized by the “Confederación de Empresarios de Aragon” (CREA, Employers Organization of Aragon). A very interesting event in which some relevant aspects were analyzed and also the critical points of
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Despite gamification is based on game techniques and its name too (“game”), its application in training environment is something very serious that has just started. If you are a risk prevention professional, or a company or organization ready to start a training programme, this is something you might be interested in. What is gamification? It’s
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European population is becoming older and more diverse. Population ageing and migration movements are the main elements of the European demographic change, which means an emerging risk factor and one of the top challenges to be faced by the old continent. Just two images showing at a glance the size of these two features: 1.-
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In the ´60s, it started to be used in North america the term Black Friday to refer to the day after Thanksgiving Day. Friday, since it was the day after Thanksgiving Day, which is celebrated the fourth Thursday every November. Black, because each Friday after Thanksgiving, a chaos of traffic and pedestrian crowd blocked the
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Maybe you will know NAPO, the cartoon character created by EU-OSHA. NAPO is the hero of an Agency´s initiative to spread the safety culture throughout society, which includes a series of videos with a noticeable pedagogic touch. In fact, educational is one of the sectors to which this initiative is addressed, and it is designed
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Last June of 2013, the European Agency for Safety And Health at Work (EU-OSHA) revised its guidelines in one of its key areas: OHS investigation. It was published by a report which updates the investigation priorities for next years in European Union, considering last progresses in scientific knowledge, changes in work environment and current tendencies
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Days ago, a colleague of mine forwarded me a video showing the works for transplanting adult trees in an Australian region (Victoria), by means of a machine called tree spade. I found the video very interesting from several points of view: The video is an example of how safety culture is established in Australia, a high profile
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Some times, while watching those TV documentaries about complex and gigantic construction projects, I imagine how specialised organisations will each project require to supervise such amount of activities: civil engineering, mechanical, electrical, HVAC, pipping, communications, computing, processes, tests, commissioning, start-up,… And, at the height of such high profile expertise must also be the HS&E staff. But what
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When I witness a discussion regarding general topics on OSH, it is very usual that someone defends the profession with a recurrent “well, but I think that it is all now very over-regulated” or something like this. It is true, everything is normalized (administrative procedures, quality, production processes, goods safety,…) but, being honest, risk prevention at
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I´m sure I´m not the only one who gets sometimes into a mess when writing in English about occupational safety and health and refer to it with abbreviations. You know: H&S, OSH, OHS, OSHA, OSHAS, EHS, OSHAS 18001, HSE, OH&S, EH&S,… HAAAAALT!!. Knowing these safety and health acronyms is basic, but this doesn´t mean that
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Suppose you are a health and safety technician looking for a new job, or already working in an external risk prevention service or in an EHS consulting like PrevenControl. One day, your company puts you in charge of the occupational safety and health duties of an audiovisual producer and your first task will be to
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Each calendar week 43, in October, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) organises the “European Week for Safety and Health at Work“. It is the biggest awareness-raising event of its kind. This year, the activities across Europe where focused, as emphasizes the current campaign “working together for risk prevention“, on encouraging
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One of the greatest contributions of the Internet is that provides direct access to information sources regarding specific matters. We can take official information and draw our own conclusions without the bias of traditional media, intermediaries to which we had to go when searching for certain content. Web pages and profiles in social networks are
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During the press reading I do almost every morning, I sow a new regarding Fukushima nuclear disaster linked to this video. “There’s so much description of the lack of safety culture and our bad habit in our organisation. We admit, we completely admit that part of the parliamentary report”, says a TEPCO responsible: Later the morning, I
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That is the conclusion drawn from the document released last year by the Ministry of Employment and Economy of Finland, explaining the National Working Life Development Strategy to 2020, launched in 2012. When reading this, one may think how extensive and detailed the report should be. Not at all. The aim of this post is not
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Last summer´s Spanish train crash brings again to my mind a doubt I have from time ago: Why there are no seatbelts on trains available in passengers train cars?. This is an issue of which I haven´t almost listened about, neither in campaigns from public or private organisations or news in media. Not even as
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Last june, Google published the acquisition of Waze, a maps, traffic and navigation app providing, as an added value, real time information reported by its more than 50 million users. In practice, the reported real time information by Waze community will gradually be incorporated to Google Maps and vice versa, providing very interesting features to
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One of the greatest challenges for the sector of the occupational safety and health is adapting to modern times without loosing the rhythm set by the faster and faster advance of technology, processes and economical and social changes. An evidence of how important is this challenge is that European Union created a specific unit -the
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On summer 2004 I traveled to one of my favourite cities: Budapest. Hungary just signed its adhesion to the European Union and the country still preserved its essence and misery. Thanks to this travel to Hungary, I could enjoy the remains of the ancient taste of East Europe. I loved it. Among the memories I
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If we define innovation as the knowledge which is applied with creativity to reach a new purpose, even the most conventional objects can, if combined ingeniously, multiply their whole value until elevating them to the coveted concept of innovation. An example of this fact is exactly what I found whereas I was taking a walk in
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It is a pleasure for us to invite you to the English version of PrevenBlog. Here, you will find our daily posts about Occupational Safety&Health, corporate environment and quality, road safety, innovation and information technologies applied to QHSE, but with a positive attitude and fun mood. Unfortunately, 11-S will always bring bad memories to all
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