The common definition of an occupational accident is that it is a physical or mental bodily injury suffered by a worker caused or related to his work. We must take into account that the bodily injury can be physical or mental.

New technologies have allowed multiple advances in different sectors such as the Tourism and Transportation sectors. As the number of passengers travelling keeps growing, as well as the international trade of goods, terminals demand a precise adaptation to accommodate new solutions.

Globalization and digitization have caused a great change in the day-to-day life of society and in the operation of companies. For years the most important companies have been competing with each other with the same weapon: technology.

When it comes to explaining what the IoT (Internet of Things) is, we summarize it as the turn out of everyday objects into sources of information that are connected to the network.

The projections for the IoT industry are rapidly increasing. The acceleration of digital transformation and the introduction of 5G have led to an increased use of this technology in our daily life.

The effects of COVID-19 have revealed the importance of addressing health risks to workers during a health crisis. In this context, the European Commission is renewing its commitment to update occupational safety and health rules.

In our blog articles we always mention the importance of having a good regulations strategy on occupational risk prevention. Previously, we explained how to implement a good strategy, how to improve the preventive culture of a company or the attributes that make a good leader in safety.

Every summer we are faced with the big problem of wildfires and firefighter safety. Unfortunately, the number of fires increases every year due to deforestation and climate change.

Until recently it was a new job title for many of us. Today the most innovative and advanced companies already have it present in their workforce and managing a team. We are talking about CIOs (Chief Innovation Officers).

Thermal stress can be defined as the discomfort that occurs in the human body due to imbalances in temperature, either due to accumulation or excessive loss of heat.

Improving health and safety levels in the company requires a high level of commitment from all employees.

We don’t have to say that volunteers are an indispensable piece in emergencies and disasters. In recent years, society has been shaken on numerous occasions by the support of volunteers in catastrophic situations, such as Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005 or the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011.

The concept of "Internet of Things" or IoT is the digital interconnection of objects through the Internet. This leads to more intelligence, connectivity, sensitivity of objects, communication, energy savings and security.

Despite the current prominence that renewable energies have taken, the Oil & Gas industry still accounts for the majority of the world’s energy generation. Likewise, this industry keeps its classification as one of the most dangerous industries for workers.

The latest technological advances and new labor measures have incorporated the use of geolocation tools for data extraction with the aim of improving processes efficiency and making better decisions.

We can describe SaaS or Software as a Service as a software distribution model where the software and its data are hosted on servers of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) company, which the clients can access via the Internet.

From 10 May until 16 May 2021, the NGO Mental Health Europe (MHE) is celebrating the second edition of the European Mental Health Awareness Week, in order to raise awareness about the importance of mental health in our everyday lives.

In an understandable way, we can define 5G as the development or evolution of the current 4G, being the fifth generation of wireless communication technologies and standards, which is basically the Internet that devices such as your mobile phone use to connect to the network anywhere.

The concept of occupational accidents refers to the production of accidents and diseases linked to the exercise of a professional activity. The forestry sector is, after the construction sector, the one with the highest rate of occupational accidents and occupational diseases.

In the recent years, the growing number of inventive startups that have arised in South Africa has fed expectations that it might become a big hub for innovation in the industrial internet of things (IIoT).

The construction sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the most powerful industries in the country, being the 3rd most important in terms of GDP, behind petrochemicals and trade.

If you don’t know which steps to follow once you see an action or situation that might put your health and security in dange, you can follow our guidelines to report it and help your company achieve a safer work environment.

Enxaneta, the first nanosatellite of the two that the Catalan Government plans to put into orbit to improve the connectivity of Catalonia and the observation of the Earth.

As digitization has been drastically incorporated not only in companies, but in people's lives, it is the workers themselves who are asking their companies to introduce innovative technologies that guarantee their safety and benefit their productivity.

The preventive culture is the commitment and resolution of all problems in the environment of safety, health and business well-being of employees in the company.

El trabajo con frío en interiores y al aire libre puede tener efectos adversos sobre la salud humana. Por esta razón, el frío se considera un riesgo añadido al trabajo.

Australia has a social security system and a culture of prevention and occupational safety and health well above the average of the industrialized countries of the world.

A continuación, te mostramos una selección de 4 libros para proporcionar a tus trabajadores y profundizar en los avances tecnológicos que nos ayudarán a crear entornos laborales más eficientes y seguros:

The IoT market in the United States is one of the most powerful and influential in the world. It is considered the cradle of technological trends thanks to ecosystems such as Silicon Valley or cities of great importance such as New York.

A pesar de las reducciones significativas en los últimos años, las lesiones y muertes en la minería siguen ocurriendo. Hablamos con Yerko Delgado, Gerente Mina de Gold Fields en Chile, quien nos explica qué medidas pueden tomar las empresas para gestionar esta problemática:

Estamos muy orgullosos de anunciaros que hemos entrado a formar parte del programa Advanced Venture-Client de Elewit, la plataforma tecnológica del Grupo Red Eléctrica. Esta oportunidad supone para Engidi el acceso a un ecosistema de innovación que tiene como objetivo crear un futuro seguro y sostenible. Lee la notícia completa aquí ->

¿Por qué la aplicación de IoT en la industria del petróleo y del gas es tan necesaria? Te explicamos las 5 razones principales por las que estas industrias deben seguir apostando por la digitalización.

Los costes tangibles de un accidente o enfermedad laboral son aquellos que podemos cuantificar monetariamente. Por ejemplo, el coste de los daños materiales tras un accidente, el coste en la producción al paralizarse una cadena de montaje, el coste de la sustitución temporal por enfermedades, etc.

En la última década, el tráfico en el transporte de mercancías comerciales por vía marítima ha vivido un gran impulso que ha conllevado a que el sector y sus infraestructuras deban adaptar y mejorar su medidas para proteger las cargas así como sus trabajadores.

A principios de agosto de este año, la población libanesa se vio sorprendida por la explosión de 2.750 toneladas de nitrato de amonio, almacenadas de forma insegura en la zona del puerto de Beirut. El accidente dejó un saldo de más de 150 muertos y más de 5.000 heridos, así como un número indefinido de desaparecidos.

Diariamente son muchos los trabajadores que se exponen a riesgos en su actividad cotidiana de trabajo. En ocasiones, estos riesgos pueden tener consecuencias en la salud del trabajador inmediatas, y en otras, perjudicarla a largo plazo. Por este motivo, contar con un equipo de protección individual (EPI) adecuado a cada tipo de trabajo es imprescindible.

La Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) se ha definido hasta ahora como la “responsabilidad de las empresas por sus impactos en la sociedad”, según la Comisión Europea. Por lo tanto, la RSC se ha estado midiendo por su impacto, es decir, por el resultado de su acción. De forma más coloquial, se ha estado midiendo a “toro pasado”.

La industria 4.0, o “cuarta revolución industrial”, es la aplicación de tecnologías disruptivas para recopilar, gestionar y procesar datos en tiempo real, y así tomar decisiones rápidas con menor riesgo de error para anticiparse a la competencia, a las necesidades del cliente y a una situación de crisis como la pandemia del coronavirus.

El término siniestralidad laboral se conoce como la frecuencia en la que se producen accidentes de trabajo y de enfermedades profesionales ligadas al ejercicio de una actividad profesional. Los accidentes de tráfico, golpes y aplastamientos han sido las principales causas de estos accidentes no naturales en los últimos años, generando una gran alarma social y provocando costes en vidas humanas así como pérdidas económicas.