I’ve just got back from a two day, company-wide conference in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
My employer has an enormous Health & Safety programme; it is an ongoing information-based roll-out that is delivered to every employee, in every layer of the company.<\/p>\n
This policy is a key strand to the company’s safety strategy, and safety is important when staff are working with highly dangerous materials.<\/p>\n
On the first day of the staff conference, the company’s Health & Safety Advisor played us a video.<\/p>\n
It’s called ‘Kate’s Story’, and it was shown to us under the heading of ‘complacency’.<\/p>\n
If you have the time to spare (just 15 minutes) please give this short film a watch.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t matter whether you work or not.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t matter whether you work with dangerous materials or not.<\/p>\n
Complacency can take many forms, and accidents can happen at any time or place – whether we are at work or not.<\/p>\n
But please be aware that this video – this terrible, tragic, yet true story – has such emotional weight that it will, in all likelihood, reduce any viewer to tears.<\/p>\n
Just as it reduced a room of 200 people to tears, at our staff conference, yesterday.<\/p>\n