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The
INMAS Forum -Integrated Management Systems-
holds its first edition in Barcelona within
Preventia.
It features a far-reaching scientific programme, presented by an array of
national and international lecturers. It is supervised by the Technical
University of Catalonia with the support of other Spanish and international
universities.
The
INMAS Forum
is a gathering to debate technical, political, corporate and social views,
which will spread key data and experiences on how to implement an
integrated management of the companies’ systems
able to improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
The
INMAS Forum is
structured around six routes that represent the integrated management of
systems, including prevention and safety:
Route responsibles:
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Route 1: Quality |
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Xavier Tort
Professor of the Technical University of Catalonia
The existing demand for corporate quality goes far beyond product quality.
Consumers and society require that organizations bring quality to their
productive processes and conditions of product & service use. Investing in
quality is investment into future.
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Route 2: Occupational Risk Prevention |
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Pedro Mondelo
Professor of the Technical University of Catalonia
ORP is not only a legal requirement in front of the companies’ economic
activity: it is also a social and consumers’ demand. It is necessary to go on working on the existing critical risks, but
also to take into account the emerging ones, as they are already contributing
to increase the accident rate
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Route 3: Environment |
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Lázaro Cremades
Professor of the Technical University of Catalonia
The recent European regulations on environmental responsibility affects both
companies and individuals. The environment is one of the pillars of social
corporate responsibility and is directly linked to a sustainable development.
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Route 4: Road safety |
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Fernando Terrés
Professor of the Technical University of Catalonia
Road accidents are one of the main misfortunes of today’s society. Their
consequences are not only social but economic. Road accidents are high on
governments’ agendas and their prevention motivates significant actions and
communication campaigns.
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Route 5: Corporate Social Responsibility |
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Javier Llovera
Professor of the Technical University of Catalonia
This is the framework for prevention and safety policies. Companies are not
only wealth generators: they are also responsible for supporting their
workers’ well-being and for improving their daily work environment.
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Route 6: Integrated Systems Management |
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Margarita González
Professor of the Technical University of Catalonia
Integrating systems management is a profitable policy to reach excellence in
all of the above mentioned fields. It is profitable because integration
produces substantial savings in modules such as document management,
procedures definition, and audits. And it is excellent because very often the
improvement comes from the interaction of the systems: what is seen inside as
an occupational risk problem is -outside- an environmental risk problem, and
both need a quality management to be solved.
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