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 […]
We have recently been busy lately working with ‘intosolutions.co.uk‘ in order to improve the ‘OSHCR’ website. This website has become the principle online search tool for organisations looking to find reputable Consultants to help them manage their H&S. The Project Manager […]
Not so long ago there was a shocking news item about the death of a H&S inspector who walked through a so-called ‘door to nowhere’ and fell from a height onto a piece of machinery. I can well understand how this […]
The Statistics For those of you who watch these things, these are the Key figures for Great Britain (2013/14) 1.2 million working people suffering from a work-related illness 2535 mesothelioma deaths due to past asbestos exposures (2012) 133 workers killed at work 78 […]
The analogy… Risk Assessments are at their most basic level, ‘Plans to reduce risk’ And planning, in the analogy I’m drawing with Eisenhower’s quote, is the act of ‘risk assessing’ i.e. an active process (as opposed to being shown a risk […]
