In this blog I want to explore the theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day. I have never considered mental health in these terms before – so I went away and did a bit of research. Here’s where my thinking has got to, as a result. All comments welcome. The starting point is that most people now recognise that […]…
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It’s a Wonderful Life – How Safety Can Help An Angel Win Its Wings
You can tell a lot about a person by their choice of favourite Christmas movie. Elf and they are likely to have a refreshingly juvenile sense of humour. Die Hard and they’re either arguably confused about what constitutes a Christmas movie or simply have a yearning for yuletide action. Bad Santa and while they’d undoubtedly be great fun […]…
read moreWe Can Work Out – Complacency After The Virus
Now I must declare that starting a blog with a Beatles song reference is a risk with our Beatles-indifferent (at best…) website editor but here goes nothing. I read the news today. Oh boy. It wasn’t about a lucky man who made the grade. Nor was it about a load of pesky potholes on Abbey Road (three Beatles references now […]…
read more“Infamy Infamy” The Elephant In The (Safety Leadership) Room
So if you are going to quote famous British comedic icon Kenneth Williams (playing Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleopatra) to start a blog on safety leadership you probably should have a better reason than the fact that for some strange reason he somehow always reminded you of your awesome Aunt Mog. Thankfully a bit of poetic licence goes a […]…
read moreDriving home for Christmas …………. eventually
Whilst returning home from a recent pilgrimage to a local retail paradise, feeling battered and bruised (physically due to the crowds and fiscally due to the seemingly endless Christmas lists we’re expected to fulfil….), I approached a ludicrously complicated junction. It’s not quite as bad as Swindon’s infamous Magic Roundabout in the bonkers-stakes, but not far off. Best described as […]…
read moreLattitude Safety On Film
Many thanks to our friend Bruce at Muddy Boot Productions for putting together a great short film highlighting what we do at Lattitude. You can see the end result here:…
read more“He’s Not The Messiah” – How Interdependent Teamwork Tackles The Them And Us Safety Culture
The Monty Python fans among you will instantly picture the scene from “The Life of Brian” movie. The massed crowd outside their new-found saviour’s ramshackle bedroom window arguing over their individuality with their new “Messiah” Brian and his mother. But it would take a ‘serious’ movie geek to remember the next few lines when in unison the crowd chant […]…
read moreHow a small dose of safety kindness can change our working lives for ever.
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain Today is the 20th World Kindness Day with events planned all over the globe. Kindness is perhaps the defining quality or essence of being human. It’s what we look for in the people we love and at the heart of our lifelong friendships. And […]…
read moreTake Care?
Our consultants travel around the country and as you would imagine often spot safety issues that make them pause for thought. Here is how Richard Davison was inspired by a recent train journey: Shortly after getting off a train, and becoming part of the jostling throng full of sharp elbowed commuters, each trying to reach the ticket barrier first, something […]…
read moreBehavioural Safety? Or the Nanny state? – Workshops
On our behavioural safety workshops, we look at the causes of accidents and injuries in the workplace, and unsurprisingly most injuries these days involve human factors – rushing, not looking where we’re going, sticking our fingers where we shouldn’t, trying to lift too much, not wearing our PPE or not holding the handrail. What’s fascinating is that the advice […]…
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