A wonderful Post Phil. Many thanks.
If I remember correctly Windscale was a "new" name for Calder Hall, Britain`s first Nuclear Power Station.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 was a Licence for so called Consultants to cash in and blind Employers and Employees in the art of box ticking. In essence it was laudable, but too often decisions were hidden behind the phrase "elf and safety, mate". We in UK tried to play it by the book but our so called partners in Europe, particularly France, Spain and Italy, turned a blind eye.
I think it was you in a recent post who stated that Health and Safety in the Workplace begins with each individual. So true and often ignored by weak management,
And then came BS5750 and then ISO9000 and by then it was my time to retire. But at least in our Organisation every single employee was alert to the fact that THEY were responsible for their own Health and Safety.
I still think back to the old case of Uddin v Portland Cement and smile, thinking that in recent times Uddin would have triumphed. Utterly ludicrous.