Sustainable development (SD) requires companies to take into account both the social and environmental consequences within their activities. This paper presents research about green supply chain management and highlight the differences between green supply chain and traditional supply chain management. Then, the paper analyses the sources of the risk in green supply chain according to the SD. S...

The hog industry needs to be placed within the context of a sustainable development strategy to ensure the long term health of workers and the affected communities. A comprehensive review of the potential environmental impacts would not be complete without consideration of the occupational health risks related to the industry. The hog industry poses health risks to Manitoba workers that must be...

This research demonstrates that sustainable development is a multidimensional conceptthat should be approached in a transdisciplinary manner. Its objective has been tosynthesize and integrate disparate and currently unconnected lines of thought that havenot yet been applied in a systematic way to promote sustainable development andsustainable transportation. The primary contribu...

Cost/benefit justifications are now required for new environmental regulations. The benefit is related to the difference between the currently existing health risk rate and the rate corresponding to the proposed permissible exposure limit. The adoption of many permissible exposure limits has been delayed by the lack of supporting human data and the use of animal data instead. This has resulted ...

Over the past decade, encouraging trends have been observed in many parts of the world showing a decrease in the annual number of occupational injury claims, while occupational diseases have been shown to be on the rise and can now be considered as the main cause of death at work. While preventive actions to mitigate the risks have been shown to be effective in many situations, one must acknowl...

BACKGROUND The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is developing an online e-guide, which will provide tips and practical information for each EU country (in their national language(s)) on ageing and occupational health and safety. The e-guide will be launched in 2016 as part of the EU-OSHA campaign on Healthy Workplaces for all ages. The e-guide will present evidence, tools...

summit ties sustainability to improved public Health Armed with enthusiasm, expertise, and a desire for sustainable solutions to meet the current and future needs of society, participants met 7–8 November 2011 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, for the fourth annual summit of the Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative, titled " Incorporating Public and Environmental Health...

while the right to health is increasingly referenced in sustainable development goal (sdg) discussions, its contribution to global health and development remains subject to considerable debate. this hypothesis explores the potential influence of the right to health on the formulation of health goals in 4 major sdg reports. we analyse these reports through a social constructivist lens which view...

This research aims to apply a model to the study and analysis of environmental and natural resource costs created in supply chains of goods and services produced in Thailand, and propose indicators for environmental problem management, caused by goods and services production, based on concepts of sustainable production and consumer behavior. The research showed that the highest environmental co...