Many materials or substances used or created during work processes could harm workers’ health. These substances could be dusts, gases or fumes that you breathe in, or liquids, gels or powders that come into contact with your eyes or skin.

Harmful substances can be present in anything from paints and cleaners to flour dust, solder fume, blood or waste. Ill health caused by these substances used at work is preventable.

Mission success is achieved by making good decisions based on a foundation of sound policies and procedures that address a project’s management and execution. Key drivers in achieving this are identifying priorities, obtaining resources, delivering the program and managing finances.

Supplier quality audits are the process of verifying that each of your suppliers is adhering to both industry standards as set by the law and independent organizations, as well as your own company and brand standards.

Audits are widely recognized as a pertinent part of doing business.

Cost of quality (COQ) is defined as a methodology that allows an organization to determine the extent to which its resources are used for activities that prevent poor quality, that appraise the quality of the organization’s products or services, and that result from internal and external failures.

The way you lead your team on health and safety can determine how safe your site is to work on (and the number of accidents, incidents and ill-health cases that happen) because:

'You can't manage what you can't measure' – Drucker

‘If you don’t know where you are going, chances are you will end up somewhere else’ – Yogi Berra

Measurement has been a problem in the safety field for years. Despite analyzing the standards over and over again, it has been difficult to come up with meaningful measures of safety performance.

There are many reasons why you should choose to manage your waste using a waste management solution or system that includes a Site Waste Management Plan. Especially with regards to waste that is produced through construction and demolition projects.

ISO 9001 is an international standardized quality management system that helps organizations to analyze, control and improve their internal systems, processes, protocols and policies in preparation for any potential risks that the business may face.

Safety culture exists in every organization right from day one. Ultimately, an organization’s safety culture is a function of both worker’s and management’s performance.

Senior management, employees and supervisors define and shape a company’s culture experience. Behavioral audits are used as a means in order to evaluate the health of the organizational safety culture. The behavioral audits’ results are analyzed to design behavioral improvement strategies.

The basic quality requirements of industrial processing products from rubber materials are determined by the Joint Ministerial Decision 91808 published in the Government Gazette 4092/Β /23-9-2020.

How to create and demonstrate Training Value!

Effective training is a training program that provides useful and hands on knowledge and skills to the participants and the confidence to apply them on the job.

Why people are not doing what they should!

The impact of performance problems may be very crucial for an organization.

The Human factor is the key to performance results. The aspects affecting work performance may be lack of training or motivation, behavioral and organizational issues etc..

Commissioning is a group of energized and dynamic tests that constitute verification that each “system or subsystem” is fabricated, installed, cleaned, and tested in accordance with design and the systems are ready for start-up.

In efficiently operating organizations the Quality, Health & Safety and Environment (QHSE) Auditing Process is a critical component of improvement processes and an essential element of the overall management system.

A crucial factor for the efficient execution of a project

Construction projects are a sector where health & safety risks are particularly high. This is largely due to the nature of the work being carried out but also to the difficulties of coordination between the stakeholders involved (contractors, subcontractors, self-employed, employees, etc.).

When evaluating an organization’s Safety Culture, one must take into consideration its efficiency at eliminating occupational hazards and reducing accidents and ill health.

People working in different business functions, despite being aligned around an expected common business performance, often try to achieve the goal by traveling down separate roads.

Outsourcing is usually the way of conducting non-core business functions such as corrective and preventive maintenance.

ISO 22000:2018 sets out the requirements for a food safety management system (FSMS). It determines what an organization needs to do to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe.

Leading and lagging indicators help enterprise leaders understand business conditions and trends. They are metrics that inform managers that they are on track to meet their organizational goals and objectives.

During previous decades Management Systems’ objectives (Quality, Health &Safety and Environment) were to help organizations satisfy customer requirements, organize processes, enable continuous improvement and most importantly be able to compete other market competitors.

In today’s business environment, objectives have become

According to international training evaluation data the majority of employees forget what they have learned within 24 hours of training.

“The Employee Forgetfulness Index” findings are bad news for Occupational Health & Safety.

But what is the reason of Employees Forgetfulness?

The Concessionaire GEFYRA SA, a joint venture of VINCI CONCESSIONS, AKTOR CONSCESSIONS SA and AVAX SA is responsible for the design, construction, financing, maintenance and operation of the Bridge "Charilaos Trikoupis". An emblematic project for Greece but also a real achievement of modern engineering.

Ensuring safe working conditions is a priority for most modern organizations.

In many cases however the results are not as expected although significant resources are spent to this end.

The PTOLEMAIDA 5 - Power Plant is the largest industrial investment under development this period in Greece. With a total power of 660 MW and heat output of 140 MW for the district heating of Ptolemais, the new unit will replace the operation of old plants with equivalent power.