On Wednesday July 18, our AITEC partner Miguel Hervás offered a workshop promoted by the Environmental Sciences College of the Valencian Community.

This workshop was aimed at providing a practical training for technicians or future technicians of Quality, Environment and Labour risk prevention on how to deal with an internal audit of the different management systems implemented in companies, including the application of techniques imported from other sectors.

The workshop was held free of charge at the Campus of Burjassot, at the University of Valencia and had more than 20 attendees. Attendees belonged to many different fields, from young students to people who were active and who were looking for reinforcement and innovations to promote the success of the management systems implemented in their companies.

We hope that the workshop will help the professional development of the assistants, and the collaboration with the school of environmental sciences of the Valencian Community is very positive and lasting.

In the framework of our EUREKA «gaDGeTs» Project, on July 18, 2017, our R & D & i department carried out, together with the responsible people for a shipper, loader and transporter of dangerous godos organization, a session of CODESIGN of the «gaDGeTs» tool.

During this session, we worked on avoiding the most important barriers of implementation of this tool, identified in a previous phase of our project. Thanks to the collaboration of this company´s people, we were able to extract important information about the best options to avoid such barriers and facilitate the implementation of «gaDGeTs» in companies working with dangerous goods.

With this, we have taken a new step in the search for a tool that responds to the needs of any company that wants to achieve a safe and optimized management of its dangerous goods.

Directive 2014/47 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on road technical inspections of commercial vehicles circulating in the European Union entered into force on May 2014. Directive updating the system of road technical inspections by establishing minimum requirements common to all Member States with the aim of improving road safety. Now, the recently published Real Decreto 563/2017 of June 2 incorporates the content of the Directive into Spanish law.

This regulation will apply to all commercial vehicles that circulate in Spanish territory, irrespective of the State in which they have registered, as vehicles for the transportation of persons and baggage and transport of goods of more than 3.5 t.

This is to ensure that vehicles circulating throughout the EU are in good safety and environmental condition during use (Chapters I and II).

Another fundamental point on which it affects, when considering it an essential aspect for road safety, is the correct subjection of the load in the vehicle in which it is transported (Chapter III). For its part, Chapter IV refers to the regulations applicable in sanctioning, determining the figure of the person responsible for maintaining the vehicle under suitable conditions.

All this is done in order to ensure that within the U.E. Commercial road transport is carried out in the most sustainable, safe and competitive way.

From AITEC several training days have been prepared, to give rise to the compliance with these regulations, which will take effect on May 20, 2018, in addition to making a correct stowage of the merchandise under the UNE 12195-1: 2011.