If we are going to learn from the tragedy of the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast, we have to be brutally honest.

While investigations continue we should keep an open mind about the possible causes and not automatically assume, like some media coverage, that the captain is totally [...]

An accident frequency rate of 3 seems likes it’s close to zero but actually it means everyone in your organisation (on average) is going to be injured three times in their working lives.

The recent release of occupational injury and ill health statistics for 2010/11 by the HSE has attracted a great deal of debate. [...]

Two companies working together to inspire safe behaviour

Lattitude Productions and Lattitude Safety are two independent companies with a cross-over in ownership. But we work together to offer our customers something that is unique.

Lattitude Productions makes mould-breaking health and safety films including:

Hindsight – the [...]

A lot of people in health and safety seem to be talking about meerkats these days. Here’s why

Rob Coyle, the head guy at Lattitude Productions and producer of many of their safety films, was watching a nature documentary one evening. It was about Meerkats. As he watched, a lightbulb appeared about his head. These [...]

Ken Woodward was left blind in 1990 after he was involved in a chemical accident where he worked at Coca Cola. Since then he has become one of the best-known and most effective motivational speaks on safety. His mission is to make sure no-one else makes the mistakes he made.

Martin Woodall, Lattitude Safety’s principal [...]