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Author : Agence européenne pour la sécurité et la santé au travail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Clean energy industries
ISBN : 9291919683
Author : Agence européenne pour la sécurité et la santé au travail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Clean energy industries
ISBN : 9291919667
Author : Paulo Jorge da Silva Bartolo,Fernando Moreira da Silva,Shaden Jaradat,Helena Bartolo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000289329
The City of Manchester, once the birthplace of the 1st Industrial Revolution, is today a pioneering hub of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), offering Industry 4.0 solutions in advanced materials, engineering, healthcare and social sciences. Indeed, the creation of some of the city’s greatest academic institutions was a direct outcome of the industrial revolution, so it was something of a homecoming that the Sustainable Smart Manufacturing (S2M) Conference was hosted by The University of Manchester in 2019. The conference was jointly organised by The University of Manchester, The University of Lisbon and The Polytechnic of Leiria – the latter two bringing in a wealth of expertise in how Industry 4.0 manifests itself in the context of sustainably evolving, deeply-rooted cities. S2M-2019 instigated the development of 61 papers selected for publication in this book on areas of Smart Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing and Virtual Prototyping, Materials for Healthcare Applications and Circular Economy, Design Education, and Urban Spaces.
Author : Benoit Roig,Karine Weiss,Veronique Thireau
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780128132913
Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment addresses the threats facing the rapidly changing world and provides guidance on how to manage risks to population health. Unlike conventional and recognized risks (major, industrial, and natural), emerging risks are characterized by low or non-existent scientific knowledge, high levels of uncertainty, and different levels of acceptability by the relevant authorities and exposed populations. Emerging risk must be analyzed through multiple and crossed approaches identifying the phenomenon linked to the emergence of risk but also by combining scientific, policy and social data in order to provide more enlightened decision making. Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment provides examples of transdisciplinary approaches used to characterize, analyze, and manage emerging risks. This book will be useful for public health researchers, policy makers, and students as well as those working in emergency management, risk management, security, environmental health, nanomaterials, and food science. Presents emerging risks from the technological, environmental, health, and energy sectors, as well as their social impacts Contextualizes emerging risks as new threats, existing threats in new locations, and known issues, which are newly recognized as risks due to increased scientific knowledge Includes case studies from around the world to reinforce concepts
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264114586
This report provides strategic advice on preparing for and responding to potential global shocks.
Author : Peter Poschen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351283984
The challenges of achieving environmental sustainability and of generating decent work for all are closely linked. In this timely book, Poschen argues that an integrated approach to tackle these challenges is a necessity: the goal of environmentally sustainable economies will not be attained without the active contribution of the world of work. Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy demonstrates that green jobs can be a key economic driver, as the world steps into the largely uncharted territory of building a sustainable and low-carbon global economy. Poschen shows that positive outcomes are possible, but require a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges.Enterprises, workers and governments are not passive bystanders in the great transformation that is urgently needed in our economies. They are essential agents of change, able to develop new ways of working in sustainable enterprises that safeguard the environment, create decent jobs and foster social inclusion. This book highlights the solutions that the world of work offers for policy and practice to tackle climate change, achieve environmental sustainability and to build prosperous and cohesive societies. It is essential reading for those in business, academia and government.
Author : Olga Kuzmina,Stefan Hoyle
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781839162817
This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education and research organisations. The obstacles include high staff turnover and an uncertain and constantly evolving research environment, small groups lacking unified management structure, deadline time pressures, restricted funding models and existing "old school" culture. Often the Health and Safety specialists and personnel managers in these organisations find themselves reiterating the same information, which gets lost as soon as the new cohort of workers arrives. Providing insight into methods of managing health and safety, training, and supervision, which help to build a strong and reliable health and safety system, this book is a collection of "best practices" from experienced safety professionals and researchers in Europe and the United States. These experiences demonstrate how health and safety professionals have overcome these issues and provide readers with ideas and models they can use in their own organisations. The information contained within is aimed at health and safety professionals and managers in universities and research organisations conducting scientific and engineering research with transient workers and students worldwide.
Author : Laura Buckley (MPH),Public Health Institute (Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electric industry workers
ISBN : UCSD:31822042652529
Author : Department of Health and Human Services,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,National Institute and Health
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1495958221
Green jobs—good for the environment, good for the economy. But how do we assure that green jobs are also good for workers? The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), through the Prevention through Design Program, launched the Going Green: Safe and Healthy Jobs initiative to make sure that green jobs are good for workers by integrating worker safety and health into “green jobs” and environmental sustainability. Green jobs, which have been defined broadly as jobs that help improve the environment and enhance sustainability, offer opportunities as well as challenges for workers. Examples of green jobs include manufacture, installation, and maintenance of solar panels and generators; construction and maintenance of wind energy turbines; jobs related to recycling; jobs related to the manufacture of green products; and jobs where green products are used in traditional fields such as agriculture, healthcare, and the service sector. In some instances, the hazards to workers may be similar to those in established industries. However, some green and sustainable practices may pose new health concerns for workers. In December, 2009, NIOSH, along with our sponsors, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Toxicology Program convened the Making Green Jobs Safe Workshop to gain input from 170 representatives from the occupational safety and health and environmental communities within industry, labor, academia, government agencies, and nongovernment organizations to discuss the occupational hazards and risks associated with green jobs and determine how to empha¬size that green jobs should be safe and healthy for workers. This report is a summary of their words and deliberations. The outcomes of the workshop were considered in the development of specific goals to eliminate the hazards and minimize the risks associated with green jobs. These goals have been included in the Prevention through Design Plan for the National Initiative. In the interval, we have continued to work with our partners to advance our shared mission. We hope that the availability of these proceedings will help us collectively to assess the progress we have made since 2009, and to continue to identify and address ongoing needs. The occupational safety and health movement and the environmental movement are interrelated. They reflect a common concern for preserving our vital resources, both human and natural. Environmental advocates and health and safety advocates supported each other in the 1960s and 1970s in building public consensus for the programs that still guide our respective missions. Today, we share the convic¬tion that protecting worker health, safety, and the environment is integral to economic recovery and growth in the 21st Century. The most compelling message from the Workshop is that the environmental concept of sustainability must be enlarged. Although a green job must preserve environmental quality and/or produce green products and services, green jobs currently have no requirement that they be safe for those individuals performing the jobs. Our concept of a green job must be enlarged to one that can be performed safely and result in no impairment to worker health. For a green job to be truly sustainable, the work itself must also be sustainably safe for the person performing the job.
Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Office Bureau International du Travail
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Clean energy industries
ISBN : 9221268683
Addresses two of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century: achieving environmental sustainability and turning the vision of decent work for all into a reality. Shows that not only are both challenges urgent, but they are also intimately linked and will have to be addressed together. Demonstrates that while it is certain that environmental degradation and climate change will increasingly require enterprises and labour markets to react and adjust, the goal of environmentally sustainable economies will not be attained without the active contribution of the world of work. Mentions the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Benzene Convention, 1971 (No. 136), the Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142), the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144), the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), the Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170), and the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993 (No. 174).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3843333378
Author : International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
Publisher : International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789292602666
The sixth edition of the series highlights employment trends in renewables worldwide, noting increasing diversification of the supply chain.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Risk management
ISBN : OCLC:912938049
Author : Olga Strietska-Ilina,Christine Hofmann,Mercedes Durán Haro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9221250911
The shift to a green economy is increasing the pace of change in labour markets and skill needs. This study of 21 countries, which represent 60 per cent of the world population, shows that economies moving towards greener production can seize the potential for job creation if they deal effectively with the coming structural change and transformation of existing jobs. The report examines the experiences of developed and developing countries in adjusting their training provision to meet new demand of a greener economy. It shows that while few new occupations emerge in the transition to greener work, massive change occurs in existing occupations. What is more, changes in skill profiles happen at all levels of qualifications and across all sectors, and require action to make the provision of education and training relevant to labour market needs. While the net employment effects of greening the economy are estimated to be positive, carbon-intensive industries are expected to lose jobs. Successful transitions from old to new, greener industries and occupations will require efficient retraining and skills upgrading. A key element of the transformation must be to target training initiatives to segments of the population typically at a disadvantage in the labour market. Skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills policies and environmental policies are still often dealt with in isolation from one another. To avoid future skill shortages, the report recommends that countries devise strategies based on well-informed policy decisions, social dialogue, and coordination among ministries and between employers and training providers.
