FARM FATALITIES

FARM FATALITIES

The HSE recently published details on annual fatality statistics and would there be any surprises? To cut to the chase – not really! Is the data depressing? Absobloodylutely! It is primarily us safety geeks and a few doom & gloom safety dinosaurs that actually...
Training, the right way

Training, the right way

This week I attended a Health & Safety Awareness Training session run by a very large organisation who operate in a very high risk sector. I must embarrassingly confess that sadly I set off with the normal perception that this was to be yet another doom and gloom...
Monsanto in Court

Monsanto in Court

In a recent court case in USA the agrochemical giant Monsanto was ordered to pay £225 million to a school groundskeeper who sued them after he developed terminal cancer. The groundsman claimed it was his frequent exposure to the Monsanto product Roundup, the most...
No Blame

No Blame

Do you take the ‘No Blame’ approach to safety? Let me start with defining what I mean by this: If someone is injured at work, the procedural behemoth kicks into life, fed by the potential risk of prosecution and insurance company scrutiny it is on the warpath, looking...