This article of mine – Make Yourself Heard – appears in the February edition of Health and Safety at Work magazine. It argues that HSE professionals need to broaden their knowledge base and develop their influencing skills in order to communicate a stronger message to board directors and senior managers.
This is our fifth and concluding article examining the challenges facing the onshore wind energy sector in improving safety standards during difficult economic times. To view please follow this link: The Value of health & safety in the wind industry during challenging times. For more information please contact me.
Emergency exercises usually use casualty simulators – or dummies – to represent the human cost of industrial accidents. By using actors to introduce authentic and unpredictable human responses, the level of realism and challenge is greatly increased. This case study – featuring Nynas – shows how the effectiveness of emergency exercises is improved by introducing… Read more »
This is the fourth article in our ongoing series examining the challenges facing the onshore wind energy sector in improving safety standards. The series appears in Wind Energy Network and also in Renewable Energy Magazine. A live case study is provided to show what organisations are doing to sustain an effective safety culture. Influencing Human… Read more »
The culture on construction sites tends to be macho and sometimes confrontational. Where this is the case, attitudes towards health and safety are usually negative: it is seen as a “rule-obsessed” process that slows the job down and if workers raise issues they may get a hostile reaction from colleagues or managers. This article by… Read more »