Which is the fairest of them all? One area that has interested me lately is how impacts on the environment are costed. This topic is more important than you might think, as it is the basis of many environmental laws and taxes. So it relates to all three of the reasons for … [Read more...] about Environmental Impacts
Best Candidate Award – NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety 2013/14
Great news in the RRC International Offices, one of our students Paul Cassell, is the top performing candidate for the NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety during 2013/14. A great achievement and also shows the quality of training and support from our … [Read more...] about Best Candidate Award – NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety 2013/14
Corporate Social Responsibility
Power to the People – Take Two Thinking about Corporate Social Responsibility and how the motivation for it is mainly moral, or ethical – as outlined in Element 1, Unit EC1 of the NEBOSH Environmental Certificate – I was interested in the recent tongue-lashing the UK government … [Read more...] about Corporate Social Responsibility
Manual Handling
HEAVE!! “Go on, put your back into it” is a fairly common phrase, usually uttered as a form of encouragement when someone is struggling to lift a heavy object. But when you think about it, it’s a very strange thing to say, given that putting your back into it is precisely the … [Read more...] about Manual Handling
Fire Safety Precautions
Fire-walk with me ‘We’re surrounded by fire’! This was the exclamation by a student on a recent course I tutored. We had just returned from an impromptu ‘walk-about’ of the building where I was delivering elements of the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk … [Read more...] about Fire Safety Precautions