Environment section of ASK-EHS blog hosts wide ranging topics from environment, sustainability, climate change, emissions and associated thread of ideas that straddle industries and organizations as well as our lives.
The age of automation, AI technologies and other avenues are offering new job opportunities. The term ‘disruption’ has evolved in every field; and to weather such disruptions, it is implicit that men and women would need targeted support to be skilled, mobile and tech-savvy.
World Bank statistics state that between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles of forest- an area larger than South Africa. Scientific journal, Nature says that since humans have begun the cutting of forests, 46% of the forests have depleted.
Health and safety which was largely limited to be an organizational pursuit has shifted its focus to people-centric technologies now. Whether it is incident management or maintenance of vendor-contractor-supplier data. The future role of data within environmental, occupational, health and safety will be defined under three distinct heads
The notion of ‘recycling’ has taken rebirth several times. Several approaches in traditional supermarkets and personal care retailers perceived interests but very rare could surpass a tiny niche. The cause lies in the behavior of the consumers; as much as they may seek to avoid waste practices, they hardly prefer inconveniences.
The environmental perturbations can be mitigated by collectively focusing on technologies that encourage the evolution of environment-friendly processes. This can then, with the help of technology, establish a healthy, safe and sound relationship between humans and the ecosystem.
Every year, 80, 00,000 tons of temple waste are dumped into the rivers- killing fishes and other living beings, creating chaos in the fragile atmosphere and thus causing enormous water pollution. With these, pesticides and fertilizers also stream in the river,