Who wants to read a blog about Health and safety?

Health and safety only seems to grab an audience when disaster strikes.  Westminster Compliance is actually in the disaster prevention business which means that if we’ve done our job properly, nothing happens.  And who can write about nothing?

The most difficult aspect of our work is changing people’s habits.  People hate change.  Which got me thinking – what has successfully persuaded me to change a bad habit?  I gave up smoking so often that I gave up giving up.  Then, about 20 years ago, I read an article by an eminent doctor who said that anyone wanting to do one thing to increase their lifespan should give up smoking.  This very simple stark message really hit home and I haven’t smoked since.  The message was in fact so strong that I didn’t even have any significant craving for nicotine – his words were more powerful than my addiction.  No other advice has had a similar effect since then…..until last month.  I caught a news item which said that every item of plastic which has ever been manufactured still exists!  I was horrified!  I resolved there and then to remove plastic from my life.  I’m now a woman on a mission.

Shopping is a nightmare!  I’ve knitted (yes really) some small string bags which I use for fruit and veg at the supermarket instead of those plastic ones they provide.  I re-use plastic bottles for smoothies (not too often though as the plastic deteriorates and can affect the contents) and I’ve even bought bamboo toothbrushes instead of the usual plastic.  (Fortunately Shiraz comes in lovely recyclable glass.)

But what on earth am I going to do about washing up liquid, washing detergents, cheese/meat/fish packaging?  I’ve written to supermarket bosses https://assaultvictimlawyer.com/buy-cialis/ expressing my concerns; I’ve drummed the “no more plastic” message into my children.

And I’ve discovered some iniquitous practices among plastic packaging suppliers: they print recognisable recycling symbols on the carton/wrapping etc and next to this, in very small letters, you will see the words “not currently recyclable”. I should say that I didn’t follow a strict diet when taking Phentermine. I only revised my diet and that’s it. I didn’t go to the gym, but sometimes I made exercises at home. These pills at http://hesca.net/phentermine/ are perfect for all women who for some reason can’t diet and workout. In the first week I felt the desire to eat, but was saturated rather quickly. The weight left me more and more willingly, and in a month I already lost almost 10 kg. Obviously this is an attempt to persuade consumers that they’re working frantically to find a way to make their packaging recyclable and that this will only be a matter of time, but I don’t believe a word of it.

I think this mission will be unending but unlike my nicotine addiction I’m not giving up.  So how, I hear you say, does all this relate to health and safety?  Well it has made me realise that the power of a strong simple message can change a person’s behaviour.  I see enough dangerous working habits and have put up with enough cheap shots about my chosen career to realise that I have a long way to go before I can get people’s buy-in to health and safety.  I’m just having to work on a persuasive message that will have the same effect on you as the doctor and the news editor had on me.  So watch this space!