Mental Health Awareness week is fast approaching. This year it is from 9th-15th May and the theme is Loneliness, Anna Neagle is right, in her book Cultivating and being happy in our own company is important, but even the most introverted among us benefit from human connection and where increasingly people have started working from home, or in a hybrid home/workplace setting, we need to proactively seek that connection out. Connection can be with our close circle, or even from small talk with strangers the research shows that both are helpful for our wellbeing.,
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Category Archives: Safety@Risk™
#384 – QUALITY VS. SAFETY COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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Compliance management is getting more challenging. Not only are legislators and governments around the world imposing more regulations, but the expectations placed on compliance leadership to management expanding scope of compliance oversight is growing every day. The periphery of compliance–including ethics, diversity, ESG, and risk management–ask to sever more of compliance leaders who are seeking to best manage, scale, and address compliance demand efficiently and effectively. Continue reading
#383 – ELECTRIC GRID RISKS – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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When the electricity grid fails, there is a risk of cascading impacts from what might seem to be a relatively minor event.
Having just watched a Electric Power video on this very topic, I feel obligated to inform the masses, what would happen if the power grid shut down? Continue reading
#382 – WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF A CRASH – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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The Focus of driver safety is on preventing accidents and implementing the necessary protocols to control risk across commercial fleets, but crashes do happen, so, the question I ask is are fleets doing enough to help drivers when they are involved in a collision? Continue reading
#381 – ASBESTOS LEGACY IN CANADA – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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20 years ago, I wrote extensively, and held a rally on Parliament hill regarding the two-faced Canadian Government and Asbestos. At that time, I had just visited India, where I witnessed Canadian Asbestos being unloaded from Vessels, with workers wearing only flip flops and loin cloths using large hooks to grab the bales. Continue reading