What To Do About ‘Horseplay’ At Work
I recently met up with another Health & Safety consultant for coffee and a chat. We meet up to exchange news, insights, and stories. To my horror, this is one of the stories he told me…
Tag: Reasonably Foreseeable
How to Respond When Somebody Says “We’ve Always Done It This Way!”
A very nice subscriber recently messaged me on LinkedIn…
“I’m in health and safety for the same reason as you, to stop people getting hurt,” he began.
How To Encourage Health & Safety Reporting
Imagine you’ve recently started work for a company that manufactures car parts…
You’re on the shop floor one Tuesday morning, holding a coffee.
Reasonably Foreseeable Near Misses
Join me for a moment in my time capsule. Our destination is Sheffield. It’s Sunday 5th April, 1981…
Tottenham Hotspur are playing Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough.
Section 37 For Directors: Consent, Connivance, and Neglect
In my article about ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’ I told you how two men cooked to death in an industrial oven in 1998. Based on the bakery environment, the events were reasonably foreseeable and the company was fined £373,000. (R v Freshas Bakery).
There is more to the story, however!
Insurance Companies And Their Cop-Outs!
Did you ever hear about the 17-year-old workshop apprentice who needed to earn some extra dough?
It was coming up to Christmas, the nights were closing in, and he didn’t have enough money to buy his girlfriend a present. One day in the workshop, he had a gruesome money-earning idea…
Would You Say This Accident Was ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’?
I was telling you last time (catch up here!) that in the case of a health and safety breach, you’re ‘guilty until proven innocent’ in the eyes of the law. When disaster strikes, one defence is to prove that whatever happened was not reasonably foreseeable…