Manual de prevención de riesgos laborales


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El manual que garantiza un entorno laboral seguro El trabajo y la salud están estrechamente ligados. El mundo laboral está en constante cambio debido a las innovaciones técnicas y tecnológicas, que obligan a modificar los procedimientos y a controlar el proceso productivo para garantizar la calidad y la eficacia del trabajo. Es conveniente mantener y mejorar los resultados de este, así como conocer los elementos que pueden incidir en la prevención de los accidentes laborales. Este manual práctico reúne todos los conceptos necesarios para diseñar los planes de seguridad laboral en las empresas, entre ellos, el conocimiento de los riesgos generales y específicos, los factores de riesgo, las situaciones de emergencia, los primeros auxilios, la organización del trabajo y las medidas preventivas. Asimismo, relaciona todas estas cuestiones con las normativas que las regulan, para ofrecer al lector la dimensión legislativa. Esta guía es indispensable para quienes desarrollan una actividad laboral y resulta muy útil para completar los procesos de formación en prevención de riesgos. Cada tema incluye un test de autoevaluación que permite comprobar el nivel de conocimientos adquiridos, así como una prueba de capacitación final. Manual práctico para la seguridad en el trabajo.Información resumida y simplificada.Temario imprescindible para una formación completa.Resumen de las normativas más relevantes.Incluye test autoevaluativos y examen de capacitación.




Manual básico. Prevención riesgos laborales


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Este libro se cimienta con la dilatada experiencia que INTERPROS posee en Prevención de Riesgos Laborales en sus diferentes aspectos. Se ha redactado respetando el contenido establecido por el Real Decreto 39/1997, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento de los Servicios de Prevención que desarrolla la Ley 31/1995 de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales.







Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies


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International businesses struggle to be competitive and influential at the global market level. With the new ideas in the management and leadership disciplines, hard skills are losing or are believed to be losing their strategic relevance while soft skills are praised and highly sought after. The Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies, a pivotal reference source, provides vital research on international business management strategies and applications within internal organizations that allow companies to strategically position themselves for increased success in the global economy. While highlighting topics such as organizational culture, internal communication, and generational workforce, this publication explores leadership disciplines as well as the methods of handling multicultural organizations. This book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, business professionals, human resource officials, researchers, academicians, and students.







Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems


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This volume analyses the most important problems and challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, and how these factors affect both the way people work and their rights. The contributions here focus on the main challenges for social security systems, lawmakers and trade unions, and provide important solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems. Other topics analysed here include dress-codes and whistleblowing in companies. From the labour point of view, workers’ representatives and trade unions must take action in collective bargaining to deal with these topics and adequately protect the workforce. The authors here are drawn from countries such as Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Brazil and Colombia, providing a global perspective. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal and human resources experts, economists, judges, academics and staff from trade unions and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (13), English (7) and Portuguese (2).




Occupational Safety and Hygiene V


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Occupational Safety and Hygiene V contains selected contributions from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2017, 10-11 April 2017, Guimarães, Portugal). The contributions focus on a wide range of topics, including: - occupational safety - risk assessment - safety management - ergonomics - management systems - environmental ergonomics - physical environments - construction safety, and - human factors Occupational Safety and Hygiene V is mainly based on research carried out at universities and other research institutions, but also includes practical studies developed by OHS Practitioners within companies. Accordingly, this book will be a helpful text to get acquainted with the state-of-the-art in research in these domains, as well as with some practical tools and approaches that are currently used by OHS professionals worldwide.





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Construction Management


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The management of construction projects is a wide ranging and challenging discipline in an increasingly international industry, facing continual challenges and demands for improvements in safety, in quality and cost control, and in the avoidance of contractual disputes. Construction Management grew out of a Leonardo da Vinci project to develop a series of Common Learning Outcomes for European Managers in Construction. Financed by the European Union, the project aimed to develop a library of basic materials for developing construction management skills for use in a pan-European context. Focused exclusively on the management of the construction phase of a building project from the contractor’s point of view, Construction Management covers the complete range of topics of which mastery is required by the construction management professional for the effective delivery of new construction projects. With the continued internationalisation of the construction industry, Construction Management will be required reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students across Europe.




Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health


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This book explores a number of important issues in the area of occupational safety and hygiene. Presenting both research and best practices for the evaluation of occupational risk, safety and health in various types of industry, it particularly focuses on occupational safety in automated environments, innovative management systems and occupational safety in a global context. The different chapters examine the perspectives of all those involved, such as managers, workers and OSH professionals. Based on selected contributions presented at the 15th International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2019), held on 15–16 April, 2019, in Guimarães, Portugal, the book serves as a timely reference guide and source of inspiration to OSH researchers, practitioners and organizations operating in a global context.