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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Lattitude 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:…
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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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Behavioural 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 […]…
read moreGiants of Leadership – A Testimonial
Giants of Leadership – A Testimonial I worked for a company that took safety to it’s heart and had many young manager with high potential making their way through the management jungle to the high temple of executives….One day I was asked “Vince, how are we going to get our principal of safety first over to this management group?”…that was […]…
read moreRoSPA Gold Award for Meerkats at Morden
It’s always good to hear positive news. This month we’ve been greeted with the wonderful announcement that BOC Morden has won the Gold Award for achievement in this year’s RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards. They’ve made such a commitment to continuous improvement in workplace safety over the last five years and now they’ve been recognised for their hard work. We’re also […]…
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 […]…
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