by Michael Hutton | Feb 17, 2025 | News
Workplace conflict presents a big challenge for UK organisations, with an estimated 25% of employees – that’s a whopping one-quarter- experiencing conflict annually (source: CIPD). This doesn’t just affect employee well-being and mental health. It also imposes a...
by Michael Hutton | Feb 6, 2025 | News
Fire safety training isn’t just a legal requirement, it’s a massively important investment in protecting lives and property. Sadly, many people don’t fully appreciate this until it’s too late. The devastating wildfires currently raging across California show the cost...
by Michael Hutton | Feb 6, 2025 | News
Here we emphasise the importance of effective fire safety training in saving lives and protecting property. Here in England to the year end March 2023 the fire and rescue service attended 600.324. 999 calls of which 138,001 were to fires. This being a...
by Michael Hutton | Feb 6, 2025 | News
Fight or Flight is the term that describes the physical changes that occur within a person’s body during a threatening or stressful situation. (Walter Cannon, Physiologist 1929) The changes prepare the body to physically fight the cause of the stress or to flee from...
by Michael Hutton | Feb 6, 2025 | News
In a fire or terrorist attack, human behaviour can vary greatly depending on the situation, but common patterns include initial shock and disbelief, confusion, panic, a strong desire to find loved ones, attempts to gather personal belongings, a tendency to follow the...
by Michael Hutton | Feb 6, 2025 | News
The author spent two years in the police and twenty-two years in the ambulance service. Attending thousands of 999 calls so has witnessed countless instances of people thinking they are immune from harm, danger or unpleasantness. How wrong they were. The author,...
