Visas and work permits: Possible global negotiating initiatives

Global initiatives.

Passports and Visas.

Passport holders of the following countries do not require a visa to enter the Departement o. Mere, D.O.M. as long as their visit (for business or tourism) does not exceed 90 days. NOTE: If you cannot find your nationality in the list below this means that you require a visa. A) Andorra Anguilla (1) Argentina Australia Austria B) Bahrain (2bis) Barbados Belgium Bermuda (1) Bolivia Brunei Brazil...

Global healthy backpack initiatives.

Schoolbag use by children is a global common concern.. Children carry school books and other amenities in their school bags. Global evidence indicates that daily load carried by school children may have negative health implications. Backpack as a school bag model, is the healthiest way of load carriage for school children. Several initiatives have been launched world over to minimize unhealthy ...

Permits-to-work in the Process Industries

The paper presents the collective results from a number of Safety Management System audits. The audit protocol is based on the Health and Safety Executive publication ‘Successful health and safety management’ and takes into account formal (written) and informal procedures as well as their implementation. Focused on permit-to-work systems, these have shown a number of common failings. The most c...

Negotiating Knowledge Gaps in Dispersed Knowledge Work

Reviews from the two streams of research knowledge based view of the firm and dispersed work – offers evidence for knowledge gaps that exist among dispersed members. Dispersed members therefore cannot take for granted that they have a common context, making dispersed collaboration problematic. A major challenge for such teams is thus to co-create a commonly shared context. This paper examines t...