Bridget Leathley is a freelance health and safety consultant, providing risk management support in facilities, retail and office environments. She delivers face-to-face safety training including IOSH and bespoke courses, and contributes to e-learning courses through evaluations and design work. She has been writing for health and safety publications since 1996.
We talk to training providers about how they have adapted essential courses to cope with social distancing, including a rapid switch to virtual classrooms.
While it is no longer acceptable to assume that all men are stronger than all women, or that people of one colour have different personalities to those of another colour it is, it appears, entirely acceptable to declare that anyone born since 1980 is addicted to social media and will ‘challenge traditional hierarchical HSE systems’, while anyone born before that date is a luddite with no understanding of the modern age, but will be quite happy to toe the line.
In the days when most computers had black screens with green text, the term ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG, pronounced whizzy-wig) referred to new computers that were being developed by companies like Apple and Xerox, where documents appeared on the screen as they would be printed.
In J is for Just Culture, the definition for the term was given as “a culture in which frontline operators and others are not punished for actions, omissions or decisions taken by them which are commensurate with their experience and training, but where gross negligence, wilful violations and destructive acts are not tolerated” (see IOSH Magazine, January 2019: bit.ly/37jtUXN).
Sensory elements such as smell and heat now feature in immersive technologies for safety training. The author reports on their impact and test-drives one of them.
The principles behind illusion can help to inspire a safer, healthier working culture so it is worth OSH practitioners knowing some tricks of the trade
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 46.0px Helvetica}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica}span.s1 {letter-spacing: -0.2px}We can all learn valuable lessons from others to improve the way we work. One of our regular contributors, Bridget Leathley, has shared some fascinating insights from other professions through her “learning from” series.