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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing / concrete manufacturing
Spanish term or phrase:Manual Integrado
The text is from a Spanish company that specializes in concrete manufacturing. The client wats the translation into UK English. The text is a list of instructions for operators handling raw material. Under references they have the following:
Manual Integrado de Gestión de Calidad, Medio Ambiente y PRL, capitulo 7
The term "integrado" in Spanish is tricky sometimes because it has so many possibilities into English. At the moment I have: Full Service Manual of Quality Control, Environment and Occupational Hazard Prevention, chapter 7. I'm not sure though, aren't full service manuals usually for cars? Has anyone seen this tem before in an original text?
Explanation: Another option, which seems to me suitable here. It's not a service manual, and "full manual" is not normally said, I think.
"The Combined Manual (CM) gives financial workers a complete, authoritative, concise set of provisions to determine eligibility for the cash and food programs and to issue client benefits on MAXIS." http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcplg?IdcService=GET_DYNAMI...
"Essentially, the documentation package for the management system will contain:
One combined Manual for the integrated Management System with minor upgrades to reflect the common EMS and OH&S requirements." http://18000store.com/downloads/18-OHSMSManual-existingEMS.p...
Thanks a lot. In the end it turned out that Calidad, Medioambiente y PRL was a department at the company encompassing these 3 aspects. They put it on the last page. 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
Even if the company does have a plan, it would almost certainly NOT integrate quality, environment and PRL. It is the manual which integrates these elements. And it will no doubt tell them how to draw up their PRL plan amongst other aspects.
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7 mins confidence:
Manual for the Integrated Quality, Environmental and PRL Management Plan
Explanation: PRL is risk management.
Jenni Lukac Local time: 07:33 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 12
15 mins confidence:
combined manual
Explanation: Another option, which seems to me suitable here. It's not a service manual, and "full manual" is not normally said, I think.
"The Combined Manual (CM) gives financial workers a complete, authoritative, concise set of provisions to determine eligibility for the cash and food programs and to issue client benefits on MAXIS." http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcplg?IdcService=GET_DYNAMI...
"Essentially, the documentation package for the management system will contain:
One combined Manual for the integrated Management System with minor upgrades to reflect the common EMS and OH&S requirements." http://18000store.com/downloads/18-OHSMSManual-existingEMS.p...
Charles Davis Local time: 07:33 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 8
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Thanks a lot. In the end it turned out that Calidad, Medioambiente y PRL was a department at the company encompassing these 3 aspects. They put it on the last page.
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If you rely on Proz references you are doomed.
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The business processes are described in the „Integrated Manual for Quality and Environmental Protection“. This manual is process-orientated and reflects all ...
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etc.
xxxFVS Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: PRL is also occupational hazard prevention http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/insurance/178070-prevencion_de_riesgos_laborales.html
Asker: I agree with you that we should never rely too heavily on Pro.Z or any single source. However, in this case, occupational hazard is an accepted translation of riesgos laborales. I have found this term in many reliable model texts originally written in English and in translations from the UN and the EU parliament.
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