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Occupational accidents, in addition of giving information about the evolution of the accidents rates of a company or sector, should allow as both corrective and preventive instruments in similar situations. To know the reasons of the occupational accident and their relationship to the age and the seniority, allows us to act on the preventive actions of the company. This paper studies and analyses the influence of the age of the workers and the seniority of them in the company on the occupational accident. We use full database of all construction companies in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. In doing that it is analyzed the forms of the accident; in other words, the way in which the worker has been injured by the material agent that produced the injury (injuries with mechanical, non-mechanical origin, caused by animals, overstrains, etc.) and the interrelation with the above mentioned causes. For the analysis, the following methods have been used: analysis of the accident data from the archive of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands during the period 2014-2017 and Delta report. Based on the analysis of the forms of accidents in the different companies, it is sought to determine if the benchmarks, have a prevalence with the highest accidents, as notable factors, in order to establish appropriate preventive strategies of the management of safety in order to do preventive intervention in the companies and to reduce the occurrence of the same type of accidents in the most exposed workers.

The Balearic Islands’ Housing Institute (Instituto Balear de la Vivienda-IBAVI), in collaboration with the Directorate General of Nature, Environmental Education, and Climate Change of the government of the Balearic Islands, has received a European grant worth €754,012 from the LIFE+2012 program to carry out the building and monitoring of 14 public housing units in Sant Ferran, Formentera. The main objective of the project is to contribute to the development of technologies, methods, and innovative instruments in the field of nature conservation, climate change, environmental policy, the production of information, and communication on environmental issues in all EU member states. This paper, a collaborative effort between the University of the Balearic Islands and the IBAVI, presents the results obtained for the determination of the bulk density of a layer of Posidonia oceanica used as an insulating material, and which complied with the limitations of thermal conductivity for a thermal insulation solution in a flat roof. Resumen: El Instituto Balear de la Vivienda (IBAVI), en colaboración con la Dirección General de Medio Natural, Educación ambiental y Cambio Climático del Gobierno de las Illes Balears, ha recibido una subvención Europea valorada en 754,012€ del programa LIFE+2012, para llevar a cabo la construcción y monitorización del proyecto de 14 viviendas de protección pública en Sant Ferran, Formentera. El principal objetivo del proyecto es contribuir al desarrollo de tecnologías, métodos e instrumentos innovadores en el ámbito de la conservación de la naturaleza, el cambio climático, la política medioambiental y la información y comunicación sobre cuestiones medioambientales en todos los estados miembros de la UE. El presente artículo, colaboración entre la Universitat de les Illes Balears y el IBAVI, presenta los resultados obtenidos para la determinación de la densidad de una capa de Posidonia Oceánica utilizada como material de aislamiento, que cumpla las limitaciones de conductividad térmica de una solución de aislamiento térmico en cubierta plana.