Research Chair’s Blog

Here we make publications related to advances of the chair, short opinion articles and entries developed by the research team.


Challenge: Building a hybrid and interconnected society.

 |  Maria Isabel Sánchez Segura

The IRSST-UC3M Chair has participated in the design of the challenge “Building a hybrid and interconnected society”, in the context of the initiative “10 R+D+i CHALLENGES to INNOVATE together in 2022”. 66 researchers (40% women) have collaborated in its elaboration with a multidisciplinary approach as they belong to different research groups of the Escuela Politécnica Superior (61% of the participating researchers) and the Faculties of Social and Legal Sciences, and Humanities, Communication and Documentation (39%) of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. This work has been coordinated by the External Promotion Area of the Vice-presidency of Research and Transfer UC3M, with the collaboration of the Disruptors and Innovators (D+I) team.

Description of this Challenge: here.

Description of the 10 challenges: here.

Foreseeable OSH Scenario after the COVID-19 Pandemic

 |  Germán Dugarte-Peña

This paper outlines the foreseeable scenario for Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) after the COVID-19 pandemic, through an analysis of the perspectives of the main OSH-related regulatory and opinion authorities, including ISO, WEF, ILO, Harrispoll, Gartner, among others.

Safety in Action 2021

 |  Germán Dugarte-Peña

For more than 20 years, Safety in Action has been the meeting place for the health and safety industry in Australia. Thousands of safety professionals from across the country have visited Safety in Action to discover new solutions to help them achieve their goals of creating safer and healthier workplaces.

I Co-working Meeting: let’s talk about Teleworking

 |  Antonio de Amescua

The Regional Institute of Occupational Safety and Health with the support of the Vice-Ministry of Employment and the Chamber of Commerce, has completed its First Meeting dedicated to Coworking: Let’s talk about Teleworking, held by streaming on 01 and 03 December 2020. 

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