They teach us so much yet last year 36,000 elephants were killed for their ivory. Elephants are remarkable. In times of drought, other animals follow because it is the elephants who remember the best places to find water. They are natural leaders with an understanding and empathy that man can seldom match. This gave us the idea for our film […]…
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The Ken Woodward series
Ken Woodward is an inspirational man, using his own experiences in an effort to save others from harm. The accident Ken suffered at work robbed him of his sight, taste, and smell in a horrific and painful way. He has worked with Lattitude to create three powerful safety films that tell his story, alone or as a set, and that […]…
read moreInspiring Safety Awards 2013
Inspiring Safety Awards 2013 Presented By Ken Woodward & Jennifer Deeney Ken Woodward lost his sight in a chemical explosion. It’s the kind of catastrophe from which most never recover. But Ken resolved that some good should come from the disaster that afflicted him. Put simply, he has become one of the world’s best motivational safety speakers – determined […]…
read morePiper Alpha: 25th Anniversary of Disaster
The 6th July marked the 25th anniversary of the horrific accident on Piper Alpha that lead to the deaths of 167 men. That day in 1988 devastated so many lives. For the survivors, family, friends, and all those who were connected to the North Sea oil platform, the consequences of a failed safety system will stay with them forever. The […]…
read moreNew Ken Woodward film creates a buzz
Lattitude’s highly anticipated film The Diary has been the topic of conversation among individuals in the Health and Safety world of recent weeks. This powerful training film tells the true extent of the damage caused by Ken Woodward’s accident, in his wife Sue’s own words. A diary she kept of the weeks and months after the near-fatal accident in which […]…
read moreThe True Value of Elephants
Elephants, the world’s greatest natural leaders, have once again come under threat in the wild. Their ivory tusks are the reason so many elephants have lost their lives, and poachers continue to kill these glorious creatures purely for profit. Despite a ban on international trade in ivory in 1989, the estimated number of elephants killed for their tusks in 2011 […]…
read moreChinese New Year highlights similarities between snakes and meerkats
The Chinese New Year begins on February 10th 2013. This year will be the year of the snake, animals who are said to be good thinkers, very aware and guided strongly by intuition. Although natural enemies of snakes in the wild, meerkats also possess these same qualities, which help to keep them safe at all times. Safety training film All […]…
read moreMaking it personal for an Olympic-standard safety culture
Any review of 2012 has to include the London Olympics. Its construction safety record was second to none. For the first time in history, an Olympic Games was built and no-one died. Now researchers are looking into what made the Olympic construction such a success. One aspect analysed by the UK Health and Safety Laboratory was the safety culture within […]…
read moreAn actor in demand
Toby Jones starred as Alfred Hitchcock in TV drama The Girl. Toby Jones is a name you see often these days. A quick search online reveals why. His lengthy filmography and varying roles are more than impressive. He has been appearing in films steadily for twenty years, beginning when he played a valet in 1992 film Orlando. Since then, he […]…
read moreOlympic research validates the Lattitude approach
One of the most remarkable aspects of the London 2012 Olympics was its safety record. For the first time in modern times, an Olympic Games was delivered with no fatalities. Now research carried out by Loughborough University for the UK Health and Safety Executive looks at what made London such a safety success story. “What struck me was how closely […]…
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