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Corporate Governance

Welcome to the posts on my professional interests. I have been involved in corporate governance for almost 20 years and have specialisms in Business Continuity, Emergency Planning, Risk Management and Health and Safety. Unlikely to be on your list of highly entertaining – but might be useful!

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Should we all do First Aid?

Should we all do First Aid

December 27, 2014 //  by Richard Rackham

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 …

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Make Health and Safety Simple

Make Health and Safety Simple

December 11, 2014 //  by Richard Rackham

My friends will be aware that the first weekend in December has a very important place in my diary. It is the weekend when my Rotary Club runs its Christmas Market. Not surprisingly perhaps, my main task at this annual extravaganza is the Health and Safety at the event. The event requires the closure of …

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Health and Safety is about Behaviour

Health and Safety is about Behaviour

December 3, 2014 //  by Richard Rackham

Most Health and Safety professionals will work in organisations that have a reasonable Health and Safety record; after all, the organisation has invested by employing someone to look after this important area. In all probability though, there are still incidents that ought never to have happened. There will also be practices that lead to long-term …

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Organisational resilience and risk

Organisational Resilience

November 29, 2014 //  by Richard Rackham

A new British Standard has been issued called “BS 65000 – Guidance for Organisational Resilience”. Most Business Continuity professionals felt that “organisational resilience” was one of the things that they already provided. So they wondered if another standard was overkill.

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Cricket: Health and Safety lessons

Cricket Health and Safety Lessons

November 27, 2014 //  by Richard Rackham

Australian cricketer Phil Hughes died this morning. A cricket ball hit him on the head. The cricket authorities will be learn some health and safety lessons. The media have highlighted the numerous messages sent from across the world. The media portrays a theme, somewhat subdued, that there must be someone to blame. The manufacturer of …

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Risk Management in the Real World

Risk Management in the Real World

November 24, 2014 //  by Richard Rackham

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 …

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