On the top of the BBC news listings today, albeit for a very brief time, was the story that NHS workers were staging a four hour strike. One has to wonder if there was a business continuity plan. Of course, there will be copious copy on the reasons, the motives, how appropriate, the effect and other […]
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Risk Management in the Real World
It always seems a relatively new development when people try to reduce risk – but clearly it isn’t at all new. Armour was developed to reduce death in war, farming to reduce the risk of starvation by hunter gatherer tribes and so on. One question though is why do people take risk at all? The […]
Should we all do First Aid?
First Aid is a strange thing isn’t it? The image is all wrong – a bit nerdy and silly; the slightly more socially engaged form of train spotting. Then the legal aspects are confusing: who should be trained? Can they be taken to court if they get it wrong? Then there is the whole thing […]