What do I mean by ‘Confetti Health and Safety (‘H&S’)? It seems to me that there are certain words and phrases that are just thrown about by people who have little experience of what they mean, or the real-world implications […]
I’ve recently been looking at battery-operated vacuum cleaners (nothing to do with my work, but we’ll get there). Anyone who has done the same thing will have seen the myriad of reviewing sites and articles that are available online. They […]
Recent experience has taught us all that if you say, ‘don’t panic’, people will automatically assume that there must be something to worry about. So off they trot to join the queue for petrol, diesel or toilet paper. This also […]
Employers and their HR people have been tested to the limit with all the recent challenges, in particular the ‘COVID’ pandemic. So during times like these, ‘Health and Safety’ (‘H&S’) can seem like the least of anyone’s concerns – unless […]
Health and Safety basic law doesn’t change very much – which is why I prefer to blog about the barriers to progress in health and safety as being more about the way people interact with each other. Get H&S Done […]
This old saying was around in my parents’ days and so I heard it when growing up. In the days where mending your own clothes was more widespread it made sense to start on a repair early, because if you […]
A lot of organisations have been encouraged by the HSE’s keep-it-simple approach over the years to put together their own so-called Health and Safety ‘Arrangements’ Normally, I like to review pre-existing documents when enquiries comes in. They tell me a […]
Like any profession, working in H&S can have some amusing moments but on this occasion, I’m referring to Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ Why? Because over the years a form of unrealistic ‘cake-ism’ has become apparent in some new enquiries that […]
In the latest IOSH health and safety industry magazine there was a good article about keeping H&S in proportion, with particular emphasis on risk assessment. Over a 4-year Doctorate study the article writer, Dr Lawrence Ball-King, interviewed 34 senior risk […]
‘Yesterday I did the weekly shop at Tesco and at the checkout was served by a new trainee. Far from the service being worse, it was actually better. Slower, but better. Why? Because the cashier was processing things at a […]
