Canadians aren’t worried enough about superbugs. As bacteria develop immunity to the antibiotics in our limited arsenal, new treatments will be needed—and soon. Otherwise, routine medical procedures will become impossible, common infections will turn fatal and tens of millions of people will die every year of once curable infections. Continue reading
The opportunity for loss is great, but so is the opportunity to prevent that loss.
A cheering thought as I set out on the slightly daunting task of making the management of health and safety risk sufficiently interesting to hook you in and get you to stay until the end. The idea behind this chapter is to provide context for health and safety risk management and compliance in terms of what the law requires, why it’s worth complying and then some practical guidance on how to do so in a world where dusty loose-leaf files of paper or a bunch of folders on a G drive no longer cut it. Continue reading
2024 has been another miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, but it has also lost billions of dollars following a strike by workers that paralysed production at two of its biggest factories.
Even its space programme has been in trouble. Two astronauts were left stranded on the International Space Station in June after their Boeing Starliner capsule developed a potential fault, which would have made returning to Earth in it too dangerous. Continue reading
Canadians aren’t worried enough about superbugs. As bacteria develop immunity to the antibiotics in our limited arsenal, new treatments will be needed—and soon. Otherwise, routine medical procedures will become impossible, common infections will turn fatal and tens of millions of people will die every year of once curable infections. Superbugs are teeny-tiny time bombs. Thankfully, researchers like Jon Stokes are racing to get new antibiotics to the finish line faster. Continue reading
“The safety profession can wear on you. Safety professionals often need more support in terms of staffing. Companies tend to lean more and more on us and it’s not easy to avoid burnout.”
“I feel incredibly fortunate to work with my team to improve safety every day. We have such an important job that is sometimes rather thankless and unnoticed. Good safety is, unfortunately, often invisible.” Continue reading