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Mental Health and Covid-19. What can we do? Without a personal frame of reference no one can say with certainty what we should or should not be doing during this crisis. The truth is that none of us have ever experienced a Global Pandemic before, and therefore we are all experiencing the effects that fear [...]

COVID-19 Series: The Future of Safety in the Construction Industry Hi Vincent, thanks for joining us today and practicing safe social-distancing for this virtual interview! We’re in to week 6 of isolating and remote working during a global pandemic and the Irish government are hopeful we’ve flattened the curve. Although we do need to maintain [...]

Working from home: During the COVID 19 Pandemic and Into the Future As I write this, we are in the second week of our schools and business being closed and ironically, I am writing this article from my own home office, while my significant other takes his turn to watch our three children! No one [...]

Wellbeing in Times of Uncertainty Never in living memory have our lives changed so drastically than over the past number of days. New phrases such as ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-isolating’ form part of the global narrative and therefore most conversations at the moment. As workplaces adapt their practices for the health and safety of their [...]

Behaviour Based Safety 101 Back when Behaviour based safety (BBS) was introduced, it was almost as if a magic wand had been created for any struggling safety programs. It was seen as the Swiss Army Knife of safety programs; it was thought that it could take care of nearly everything. Today, it is accepted that [...]

Stop! Machine Guards "Crushed fingers, broken bones, amputation, strike by flying material. These are just some of the real outcomes of poorly guarded machines. It can be life altering. And it can kill. Each piece of machinery has its own unique mechanical and non-mechanical hazards, causing injuries from minor to very severe. Each machine must [...]

Small Acts of Persistence Developing Organisational and Employee Resilience One of the key pillars of personal wellbeing is the ability to overcome setbacks and challenges. Being able to do this develops our sense of self-belief and our resilience. Resilience is a mental toughness, it is the ability to bounce back from setbacks in our lives [...]