Risk assessment and safety for businesses that care
Last week the press had fun with the clown from the Moscow State Circus who had fallen and broken a metatarsal. The health and safety ‘advisor’ said he should not wear the trade-mark oversized clown shoes on the high wire because they were too high a risk. I seem to remember a certain Mr David [...]
Well actually it was in April, but, in any case, Hurrah for Quentin Letts who made a great case for sanity instead of silliness in health and safety regulations in Panorama on 20 April. Reading all the associated press and media material leads us to believe that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issues lots [...]
If you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods with your kids and someone in the party has a ‘bad feeling’, like most parents you instinctively take action to keep the children safe. It may be that one of the children gets scared, or it may be a parent who has an odd feeling [...]
Why is it that nearly every time I’ve conducted an accident investigation interview, the person being interviewed almost always comes up with ‘I knew that something was going to happen’? If they knew it was going to happen, then why did they let it happen in the first place? The answers tend to include: “It’s [...]
The vast majority of us come with health and safety pre-installed! We are born with an innate ability to keep ourselves safe; when we need help we cry! Of course, there are a few people who don’t have the ‘ basic software’ and seem to fall over things, off things and into things rather more [...]
