We’ve been trying to keep up with Ken Woodward. In one year alone, he took 112 flights, visited 19 different countries and made 285 presentations on safety. He doesn’t stay still for long. In the background, we’ve been translating like fury to make his film Hindsight — The Official Ken Woodward Story available to as many people as possible. We’ve […]…
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The storage story
Thanking people for doing things right can have a profound effect on safety culture, award-winning Storengy UK discovered. A rigger new to the Stublach gas storage project near Northwich in Cheshire was moving a pipework spool. He checked a webbing sling and then wrapped it around the pipe and attached it to a teleporter hook. He had done everything by […]…
read moreInspiring Safety Awards 2012 – Winners announced
The Inspiring Safety Awards were presented by safety guru Ken Woodward on 26 June 2012 at a special ceremony in Blackpool. There were three main categories and a special international award, for outstanding contributions to safety. The winners are as follows. Most Inspiring Individual – John Mulholland John Mulholland, Slicing Manager at Midshire Foods was named Most Inspiring […]…
read moreHow Visiting Meerkats Helped Highland Spring Slash its Accident Rate
Jonathan Neale wanted a better way to train people in health and safety at the Highland Spring water plant in Perthshire, Scotland. So he took them to a safari park. It’s a clever idea. You see we can learn a lot about safe behaviour by watching what animals do instinctively. But more than that, as a way of training, it […]…
read moreI’m proud of those who embrace safety culture, Jennifer Deeney tells PM
Jennifer Deeney, whose husband Kieron died in an industrial accident, responded with alarm when she read in the Independent that the Prime Minister wanted to “kill off safety culture”. So she wrote him a letter. I read this article with total dismay, she tells David Cameron. For me, the lack of understanding and the confusion between a safety culture and […]…
read moreFirst prize for Elephant Film at World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
• It was the 8th International Film and Multimedia Festival • Part of the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Istanbul • An event that only happens once every three years • There were 232 entries from 30 countries. • On 14 September 2011, a jury of international health and safety professionals announced the winners and… First […]…
read moreSHUTDOWN: the real cost of health and safety
We thought you might be interested in some recent figures. Cost of bailing out Greece €109billion* Cost of lost production because people cannot work owing to health or disability (EU annually): €3000billion** But that is not the real story. This is the real story of the cost of health and safety . . . SHUTDOWN is a film about […]…
read moreA Home Run for Safety Bob
When an Aluminium factory wanted to imbue a safety culture that went beyond the workplace, it turned to a comic-strip hero. Belgium has a long and prestigious association with cartoons. Herge’s boy detective Tintin is famous around the world, as are the squeaky-voiced Smurfs. But there are thousands of other characters that everyone knows locally. Comic books are part of […]…
read moreTrumpeting success brings everyone on board
Inspiring stories Communication, communication, communication and communication. These are the top four on Adrienne McKenzie’s list of priorities. And the SailSafe project manager at BC Ferries in Vancouver uses everything from workshops to a special intranet site to get the safety message across. But it is important to Adrienne that the message is a positive one. In too many organisations, […]…
read moreThe SHE Show 2011
Hilton Blackpool 7 June 2011 The SHE Show is a high profile conference running alongside an exhibition featuring key suppliers and service providers in the fields of safety, health and environment. Although the event was only launched in 2009 it is fast becoming one of the most successful events of its kind in the SHE arena. The conference […]…
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