Explosions, and the subsequent fires, follow a similar pattern in the chemical industry so it begs the question, why doesn’t the lesson get learnt and safety management systems (SMS) get reviewed and improved for the experience learnt throughout the industry.…
The Incident On 8th January 1989 a Boeing 737-400 aircraft left Heathrow airport for Belfast with 8 crew members and 118 passengers on board. About 20 miles from the East Midlands Airport the engine began vibrating and there was a…
Welcome to our blog series looking at the causes and consequences of well known disasters. This blog looks at Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash 1952. The Incident The Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash occurred on 8th October 1952 at Harrow…
Guest blog written by Liz O’Brien at Terra Firma 360. When you have tons to do, lots of paperwork, people, meetings and just general everyday work things, it can be so easy to put things on the back burner. Everything…
Severe adverse weather conditions in the UK are uncommon but when they do occur it can seem as if the country comes to a stand still. But with improving internet access and an array of cloud services available, most service…
The international standard for occupational health and safety ISO 45001, was a long time coming, with organisations using British Standard OHSAS 18001 as a governance framework for many years. But in 2018 the Project Committee ISO/PC 283 managed to co-ordinate…
ISO 45001:2018 is an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) which is going to supersede ISO 18001 in the next 2-3 years. ISO 45001 is an international standard that is globally agreed/recognised as the same as 14001 & 9001,…
ISO Certification is recognised across the world to represent the best practice in a variety of management disciplines. However, for many smaller organisations the formality, complexity and costs of achieving ISO Certification can be off-putting, which is a terrible shame…
A guest blog written by Paul Holcroft from Peninsula. The purpose of health & safety in the workplace is simple: prevent illness, injury, and death. Yet some businesses relegate health & safety to the status of tick-box inconvenience due to being…
