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A typical year in the life of the Factory Inspectorate
Bryan HarveyBecause of a continuing extraordinary and discouraging history of accidents that should not happen a special watchdog unit may be set up to monitor the construction industry's…
Executive salaries
This article summarises the main findings of the 13th Annual Survey of Executive Salaries and Fringe Benefits in the UK, edited by Nigel Bryant and published by Inbucon/AIC…
Legislating for safety
William Walsh ACIS MISMThe Royal Assent to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 received a sixteen line paragraph in Topics for September. In dozens of journals it did not even rate a mention. But if…
Planning for safety
William WalshAccident prevention and the avoidance of occupational ill health are important from the legal, humanitarian, social and business efficiency aspects. If genuine concern for people…
The moving finger writes—and reveals
Edgar Baker CBEIf you mention the word graphology to people, they often look slightly puzzled and think it's something to do with reading tea‐leaves in a teacup, or perhaps with astrology or…
Business administration
The information in this careers article has been abstracted from Guidelines for training graduate business professionals and business technicians published by the Engineering…
The axe falls
Lyndon JonesFollowing years of headlong expansion, education has outrun the capacity to pay. A crash programme of retrenchment is inevitable. In the planning of such a programme central…
Stop this waste of valuable manpower
Terry SmithDuring the past few years everyone has become aware of the enormous growth of our “higher education industry”—in 1948 only 100,000 were in full‐time higher education yet by 1973…
Equality in the current crisis — and afterwards
Reg Prentice PCToo many people in Britain today are giving way to a temptation to assume that the economic crisis is for other people to solve. This temptation is natural enough but potentially…
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