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 […]…
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The 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 […]…
read moreConstruction industry safety training
Safety training films designed to inspire people working in construction Construction remains a high-risk industry despite the hard work of safety professionals. The nature of the work creates special challenges and although the number of fatal injuries is now less than half the figure for the 1990s*, there is still work to be done. At Lattitude, we work closely with […]…
read moreThe home truth about an accident
It only takes a split-second for your life to be turned inside out. But an accident’s an accident wherever it happens. Should we really be clocking out of safety when we leave work? Mike Ford started work at Kellogg’s Manufacturing Plant in Wrexham straight from school and he is well-known and well liked there. So the effects of the accident […]…
read moreFamiliar is not the same as safe
When James Gorry fell from a factory roof, he was doing a job he’d done hundreds of times before in exactly the same way he’d always done it. In 2005, James Gorry was running his own construction company, and had 25-years’ experience including being the person responsible for health and safety. So how was it he fell 26 feet from […]…
read moreTorchbearer Jen says safe Olympics workers deserve a medal
“The guys that built it [deserve] a medal nobody ever had before.” So says our own Jen Deeney about the London Olympics Park. Jen is carrying the Olympic Torch in Merton, south London, on 23 July. “I’m excited to be part of it because hopefully it will be the first Olympics in history to be built without a fatality,” she […]…
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