Carla Vintro

Carla Vintro
University of Lleida | UDL · Department of Business Administration and Economic Management of Natural Resources

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A simple approach is proposed to study the main factors related to the mining activity’s impact on society, through a corporate social responsibility (CSR) qualitative analysis based on the type of raw materials extracted, either by mine site or firm. A CSR index is defined by 30 environmental and socioeconomic elements and, subsequently, it is wei...
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The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on total factor productivity (TFP) in the European mining industry, considering micro- and macroeconomic indicators of the relationship between CSR and TFP. Employing data from 40 European mining companies from content analysis, CSR Hub, and the World Ban...
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Underground mining is currently one of the Spanish economic sectors with the worst accident rates. Besides, the most frequent type of accident, and with the most serious consequences, is the one in which the injured worker is hit by a moving object. For this reason, this study focuses on the analysis of this type of accident, divided into 3 subgrou...
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Reasons to adopt Corporate Social Responsibility reporting by leather tanning companies must primarily be sought in the specific nature of the industry, where leather is a material from renewable sources, however part of its manufacture process might pose one of the gravest environmental hazards in the world. The tanning industry appears, therefore...
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A new quantitative index to analyse the corporate social responsibility (CSR) level of mine sites was developed, providing an easy and friendly tool to analyse and apply a continuous improvement approach to CSR levels, being able to involve all the potential stakeholders. The index can be used in any type of project and stage: prospecting and explo...
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BACKGROUND Health and safety is a crucial issue in the mining industry due to the implication of accidents in the sector.OBJECTIVE This study determines the safety culture characteristics in several mining activities from South America.METHODSA survey of the safety culture maturity has been done by means of 24 questions regarding the type of activi...
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Potash mining is an important economic activity in the north-east of Spain. However, one of the main environmental issues produced for such type of mining is subsidence, which generates horizontal and vertical ground displacements. A Geographic Information System (GIS)-based model is proposed as a management system in a case study with two mines. T...
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A database of tourist mines and caves has been created to investigate the requirements of an integrated monitoring system with the aim of ensuring the safety of visitors and preserving the environment of the activities. It contains the main features of each site, in particular the physical, geological and technical information. The results unfold t...
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Mining is an economic sector with a high number of accidents. Mines are hazardous places and workers can suffer a wide variety of injuries. Utilizing a database composed of almost 70,000 occupational accidents and fatality reports corresponding to the decade 2003–2012 in the Spanish mining sector, the paper analyzes the main causes of those acciden...
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Purpose – Since lean manufacturing considers that “Inventory is evil”, the purpose of this paper is to find and quantify the relations between work-in-process inventory (WIP), manufacturing lead time (LT) and the operational variables they depend upon. Such relations provide guidelines and performance indicators in process management. Design/metho...
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This paper examines the adoption of environmental practices in small and medium sized companies in the surface mining industry in Catalonia (Spain). To fulfill this aim, a survey of 41 items concerning environmental management systems and environmentally sustainable practices has been conducted. Results show that companies have committed themselves...
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The mine disaster of gas at working face and goaf creates a risky working environment for miners, and causes a mass of casualties in mining industry around the world. The key points of resolving the gas problem are to properly increase fresh air volume in ventilation network, exactly determining the gas emission zone, and implementing a reasonable...
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For the purpose of fully and systematically observe, research and optimize the U-sharp ventilation system in Vilafruns mine, a simulation model based on the principles of geometric, kinematic and dynamic similarity is established in the simulation laboratory. By simulating a U-shape ventilation network, t he air volume distribution and wind velocit...
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This paper compares the incidence of fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries of workers in the mining and construction sectors in Spain between 2000 and 2010. Data on work injuries were obtained from the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Immigration and the denominators were obtained from the available statistics on Social Security registration. We...
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Mines are hazardous and workers can suffer many types of accidents caused by fire, flood, explosion or collapse. Injury incidence rates in mining are considerably higher than those registered by other economic sectors. One of the main reasons for this high-level incidence rate is the existence of a large number of dangerous workplaces. This work an...
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the experience of a school of industrial engineering that adopted an environmental management system that includes performance indicators that encompass metrics of the environmental implications of the research and education that the school offers, and measures of how this education is assimilated by the stud...
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) was put forward by Kaplan and Anderson in 2004 to improve Activty-Based Costing (ABC). TDABC was designed to be simpler and more powerful than ABC, by means of better modeling of processes thanks to time equations. This paper describes a real implementation of TDABC and its determinants and, by means of to...
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This work is part of a project to design an integrated system for continuous monitoring of touristic mines and caves. The aim of the project is to achieve an efficient control system that ensures the safety of visitors and environmental preservation of biodiversity and geodiversity or other heritage elements present in the underground touristic act...
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The rate for work related accidents in Spanish mining has decreased during recent years. However, the incidence rate per 100,000 workers in the Spanish mining sector in 2007 was significantly higher than the ones reported in the mining industry of other countries. This result implies that studies and research should be carried out in order to revea...
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This paper examines the role and diffusion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) management, especially in relation with the adoption of other management systems, in small and medium sized companies in the surface mining industry in Catalonia (Spain). Specifically, it identifies the most salient CSR practices, procedures and metrics and the prof...
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This paper proposes a new methodology aimed at characterizing and studying two key geological elements for the sustainable and ethical development of society: geological resources and geological risks. The main objective is to broaden concepts and therefore, to facilitate the development of geological studies and the establishment of guidelines tha...
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The traditional definition of the geological resource term excludes all those elements or processes of the physical environment that show a scientific, didactic, or cultural interest, but do not offer, in principle, an economic potential. The so called cultural geo-resources have traditionally not been included within a classification that puts the...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la situación de la responsabilidad social corporativa (RSC) en la minería de áridos de Cataluña. A partir de la información obtenida mediante cuestionarios se ha analizado la experiencia en sistemas de gestión, la adopción de prácticas de RSC, la aplicación de procedimientos de RSC y la utilización de sistema...
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La Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) incluye aspectos económicos, sociales y medioambientales, y tiene especial importancia en la minería. En este artículo se explora la disciplina de RSC en la industria minera y las sinergias principales con los sistemas de gestión medioambiental, de seguridad y de calidad, la adopción de los cuales ha aume...
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Palabras clave: Lean manufacturing, Gestión medioambiental, responsabilidad medioambiental, green manufacturing. 1. Introducción Durante las últimas décadas se han experimentado profundos cambios en el entorno competitivo, que han obligado a las empresas a apostar por estrategias que les permitan diferenciarse de sus competidores y ganar la confian...

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