Gazing out over the future, what do you see? Do you see mass unemployment and an opportunity to drive down standards, salaries and benefits on the back of the easy pickings that is a downtrodden pool of desperate people? Does 2021 also afford you the opportunity to depress the working conditions of current employees? Or, do you see a future … Read More
The Human Oil in the Process Engine
Today started with a review of Staying Alive: Preventing Serious Injury and Fatalities while Working at Height All-Party Parliamentary Group on Working at Height from February 2019. This on the back of the recent headlines about the upward trend of worker fatalities, particularly those arising from ‘falls from a height’, and our subsequent deeper dive into the historical statistical trends. … Read More
When Quality is Better than Quantity in Health and Safety
One of the dangers that companies face when trying to improve health and safety is going overboard on procedures and paperwork. This is often a fine line, but if you fall on the wrong side of it the impact can be significant. This is what the UK branch of Finning discovered. Finning is a distributor of plant manufactured by Caterpillar. … Read More
