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Bridget Leathley

@BridgeToSafety

Health and safety trainer, consultant and writer. Yoga teacher

 Bucks
Joined January 2012
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Thanks to my fellow committee members @IOSH_Chiltern Here's to a year of providing valuable content for members
IOSH Chiltern (@IOSH_Chiltern) profile pictureIOSH Chiltern@IOSH_Chiltern4 Jan 2023
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@IOSH_Chiltern Branch Cttee wish all of our members, friends and followers afar, a Safe, Healthy and Happy New Year. As ‘Our Bridget’ (Leathley) @Bridge2Safety says in Jan IOSH Mag on Future of OSH (pg22) “Let’s hope for more intelligence in 2023, both artificial and natural”!
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IOSH Chiltern@IOSH_Chiltern4 Jan 2023
@IOSH_Chiltern Branch Cttee wish all of our members, friends and followers afar, a Safe, Healthy and Happy New Year. As ‘Our Bridget’ (Leathley) @Bridge2Safety says in Jan IOSH Mag on Future of OSH (pg22) “Let’s hope for more intelligence in 2023, both artificial and natural”!
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One foot or two? How should you foot a ladder? linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-yo… via @LinkedIn

How do you foot a ladder?

While I realise that footing is the last resort for securing a ladder, it is sometimes necessary. But how should it be done? The only advice I can find on the HSE website is in a 2007 Topic Inspect...

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Do @ForestryEngland know something about lockdown that the rest of us haven't been told? I received this email today, announcing we are half way through lockdown! As there is currently no stated end of this lockdown, I'm wondering how they know this
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Part of my post-COVID planning: 5 Top Tips To Be A Successful Digital Nomad nexstand.eu/blogs/news/5-top…

5 Top Tips To Be A Successful Digital Nomad | NEXSTAND EU

Lockdown saw three adults in my household working from home. As restrictions started to lift, we discussed a family holiday. As a freelancer, I can meet client commitments around holidays. I might...

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Numbers in COVID-19 risk assessments - dump the numbers and focus on controls. linkedin.com/pulse/numbers-c… via @LinkedIn

Numbers in COVID-19 risk assessments

I've had a lot of friends and contacts asking me about their COVID-19 risk assessments, and one question that comes up frequently is "do I have to use numbers?" I have also recently reviewed a risk...

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Check out my latest article: Risk assessments for COVID-19 linkedin.com/pulse/risk-asse… via @LinkedIn

Risk assessments for COVID-19

I've been thinking a lot today about COVID-19 risk assessments. After going around in circles, I decided that physical exercise was needed, so with a member of my household, I went to the building at...

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See my article: Risk assessment - getting Brits safely back to work or covering backsides? linkedin.com/pulse/risk-asse… via @LinkedIn

Risk assessment

I was pleased to see the emphasis on risk assessment in the UK Government advice on getting "Brits safely back to work". I think many of us will be pleased that the wording made explicit the requir...

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Stop calling it 'panic'​ linkedin.com/pulse/stop-call… via @LinkedIn. Let's work out what is really influencing behaviour

Stop calling it 'panic'​

The meaning of the word “panic” was changed for me when I read the works of Dr David Canter and Dr Jonathan Sime as part of work I was doing on the safety case for the Channel Tunnel. Traditional...

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Good start to @HWatWork with a presentation from Martin Temple chair of @H_S_E on how HSE will tackle emerging issues, including robots, through collaboration
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Check out my latest article: Learning Technologies takeaways (plus a couple of gripes) linkedin.com/pulse/learning-… via @LinkedIn

Learning Technologies takeaways (plus a couple of gripes)

Yesterday I went to the first day of the Learning Technologies #LT20UK event at the Excel. I enjoyed interesting conversations with people on stands, in the audience at talks, and with some of the...

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CGS Careers@CGSInspiration20 Nov 2019
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Replying to @theteamakers and @mentalhealth
Check out my article: From floppy discs to robots linkedin.com/pulse/from-flop… via @LinkedIn

From floppy discs to robots

In 1996 I was working for a risk management consultancy. We subscribed to HSW as well as to the Croner Health and Safety information service.

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Check out my latest article: Blended learning - the need to personalise linkedin.com/pulse/blended-l… via @LinkedIn

Blended learning - the need to personalise

A few months ago I put out a request for any thoughts on how best to blend different methods of occupational safety and health training. The result is now in IOSH Magazine.

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Health and Wellbeing at work, in questions linkedin.com/pulse/health-we…

Health and Wellbeing at work, in questions

A busy week, with two great days at the Health and Wellbeing at Work event in Birmingham where I picked up a few tips about how asking different types of questions can get better answers. Dr Rachael...

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Face fit and fits of laughter - Face fit testing with 3B Training linkedin.com/pulse/face-fit-…

Face fit and fits of laughter

This week I had the pleasure of attending a Face Fit testing workshop, run by Lynsey Mason of 3B Training. In the last few months I feel I've been to so many presentations that whilst agree with the...

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Latest in the IOSH Magazine Lexicon is now online. J is for Just Culture - how do you decide if an error is culpable or non-culpable? Who decides? Ultimately, does it matter who is to blame, or whose 'fault' it is? Is the more im…lnkd.in/gjN5XWp lnkd.in/g-tZEtT
J is for Just culture | Bridget Leathley, C.ErgHF, CFIOSH, CPsychol

J is for Just culture | Bridget Leathley, C.ErgHF, CFIOSH, CPsychol

Latest in the IOSH Magazine Lexicon is now online. J is for Just Culture - how do you decide if an error is culpable or non-culpable? Who decides? Ultimately, does it matter who is to blame, or whose...

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Being introduced at @IOSH_conference last week for my session on what VR / AR/ IOT can do for health and safety
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A compliment from an expert in the field - thanks @PatrickWaterso1
Patrick Waterson (@PatrickWaterso1) profile picturePatrick Waterson@PatrickWaterso14 Sep 2018
Excellent overview of FRAM - well done @IOSHmagazine - quiet an achievement to explain this on one page
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