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Taking Safety Seriously Hastam’s work as Expert Witnesses, in both criminal and civil cases, indicates that all too often operational managers’ perspective of safety and their role in managing it responsibly is inadequate or ill informed. Using case-studies, delegates work … Continue reading
Changes to RIDDOR – is this really the right message? A personal perspective.
From The Health and Safety Executive Website Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) Change – 6 April 2012 From 6 April 2012, subject to Parliamentary approval, RIDDOR’s over three day injury reporting requirement will change. From … Continue reading
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The new buzz word in H&S is “resilience” – so what is it?
Professor Andrew Hale explains. Dictionary definitions of resilience emphasise the ability to bounce back from adversity or hard knocks. That would cover a company responding to a disastrous fire by reopening production facilities in a temporary building, or a chemical … Continue reading
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Löfstedt – Hastam’s thoughts …
The Löfstedt review and risk Many people have commented on the legal aspects of Professor Löfstedt’s review but we would like to take a slightly different tack and discuss his recommendations with regard to risk. Under the heading Improving the … Continue reading
The effects of Hindsight Bias on Incident Investigations
You may be aware that Hastam has been involved in the investigation of some of the principal safety incidents in the UK in the last decade – for example, the explosions at Port Talbot and Buncefield, and the rail crash … Continue reading
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Hastam Thought Leadership Conference – March 28th at Derby
Behavioural Safety – fact and fiction What are the facts and fictions regarding Behavioural Safety? Is it a panacea, a quick fix or part of the longer term safety journey? What methodologies really work over the long-term? Should organisations be … Continue reading
The importance of planning in health and safety
Planning in health and safety (H&S) is a process well specified in BS OHSAS 18001 but it is our experience that H&S professionals rarely follow this well specified process. Planning tends to be reactive in response to problems arising, rather … Continue reading