Blog Posts

Is Mental Health A Human Right? – Glen Ridgway

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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We 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 […]…

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Driving 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 […]…

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“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 […]…

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Take 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 […]…

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