It’s probably true to say that the only people who like a really complex subject are those that are learning to master it (with a sense of purpose) or those who feel they know enough to move around it, practice […]
The Problem Whenever Health & Safety is being discussed, there’s always someone who says ‘… just use common sense’. It’s usually said with the best intentions, but without thinking it through – what is this magical thing that all H&S […]
I quite like that phrase: ‘Judgemental Reductionism’, even if I’m not fond of people applying it. Why am I talking about such vague notions? It’s because there’s often an unintentionally cruel part of our nature that ridicules and reduces anything […]
Just Health and Safety are celebrating 10 years of existence! Doesn’t time fly when you’re enjoying yourself?! We’d like to share the cake, but it’s not healthy for you…really, really unhealthy – we’re actually doing you a big favour. Seriously […]
Following the financial crash, then austerity, and the recent Brexit vote, there is a groundswell feeling that we need to ‘take back control’. This seems to encompass the wish for less inequality and less regulation/bureaucracy. For H&S practitioners this is […]
Captain Kirk often put up a good show of resisting evil forces, but I fear most of us fail when it comes to opting for an ‘easy solution’ If he was organising H&S training the evil force that he…MUST…RESIST…would be […]
HSE have recently released their latest strategy – Helping Great Britain work well 2016 There were several main titles and images I could have used for this blog. For a while I was tinkering with images of deflated balloons, and […]
A Year to Make it Make Sense One of the key faults with risk assessments I’ve picked up on over the years is when risk assessors imagine the document to be some sort of collection of orders, so when writing […]
From today, 1 October 2015, if you are self-employed and your work activity poses no potential risk to the health and safety of other workers or members of the public, then health and safety law will not apply to you […]
Safety people are often pulled in different directions, and sometimes it’s hard to adopt a sensible ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach… Safety I versus Safety II I recently read a short book review of ‘Safety I and Safety II: The past and future […]
