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The British Prime Minister has avowed to ’kill off the health and safety culture’ which he described as ’a monster’. Nonetheless, industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative pressure to improve safety when, actually, rates of safety improvement have slowed to a standstill. In Safety Can't Be Measured, Andrew Townsend suggests the main reason for the stagnation of safety improvement is the failure to recognise the evolution in accident causation and to evolve with it. He severely criticises some aspects of current day management of occupational safety and contends that everyone is trying to continuously improve something in which improvement cannot be measured, ...
The epic story of one man's quest to run 525 miles from the Atlantic to the Med across the Spanish Pyrenees.
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British journalist and writer Andrew Townsend has compiled a book full of funny stories, anecdotes, jokes for all of the family, witty wordplay, humorous happenings, ticklish trivia, entertaining snippets and much more. Celebrities, sports personalities, politicians, everyday folk, children and animals all feature in Such is the biscuit tin of life.
What constitutes an island and the archaeology contained within? Is it the physicality of its boundary (between shoreline and sea)? Does this physical barrier extend further into a watery zone? Archaeologically, can islands be defined by cultural heritage and influence? Clearly, and based on these few probing questions, islands are more than just lumps of rock and earth sitting in the middle of a sea or ocean. An island is a space which, when described in terms of topography, landscape form and resources, becomes a place. A place can sometimes be delineated with barriers and boundaries; it may also have a perimeter and can be distinguished from the space that surrounds it. The 16 papers pres...
How can practice be understood and developed? What part can action research play in that process? What principles lie at the heart of action research and how can they be adopted? How can action research bring about democratic and collaborative changes to practice? These and other questions are answered in this book which offers both a practical step-by-step guide to action research and an examination of the underlying principles and challenges. Action research as an approach aims to generate knowledge and achieve principled change. This book explores the overarching features and a variety of models of action research to provide advice, guidance, and support on its conduct and to identify cha...
Join Belu the whale as he has lots of fun in this charming picture book for pre-school children. He swims, he sings, he jumps over the waves. He blows air, and he dives down and down. Then he has a lovely time playing with his friend, Kiki. At the end of the day, tired but happy, he falls asleep.Dolphins, turtles, stingrays, seahorses, starfish, squids and jellyfish all feature in this simple, yet delightful, story.Belu the whale loves to smile and he will make you smile too. Have lots of fun reading this book written and illustrated by Andrew Townsend.