#387 – MENTAL RISK: SOLITUDE IS PLEASANT: LONELINESS IS NOT – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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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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#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

#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