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Some days, the only person I see in the quietest book shop in Notting Hill is Max. And I pay him to be there. I work back in the office;...

My brother David has said the same thing to me since we were small kids. “Charles,” he signs…he’s deaf you know, so he signs. “Charles,...

What were the odds on a four-man Jamaican bobsleigh team making the Winter Olympics? About as long as me, Irving Blitzer, becoming the...

The Finding When recording non-conformances on the Fault Report Register the date when the non-conformance was closed out should be...

Buildings management comes with a big responsibility, whether you're managing a factory, hotel, housing assocition, office block,...

Photo by Todd Trapani on Unsplash People have been laughing at me all my life. From school in Cheltenham to the ski jump slopes of...

When the music begins, we’re kneeling on the ice with our heads looking down at our shoulders. We bring our heads up and for one second,...

The building manager stood in front of Nakatomi Plaza with his mouth open. “It looks like a battlefield,” he said. A car had smashed...

“SANTA!!” shouted Buddy the Elf. The department store Santa shrugged his shoulders and laughed. “That guy really loves Christmas,” he...

Many organisations really seem to struggle with managing legal compliance. First of all, there's working out what legislation applies in...

Mango makes it so easy to have confidence in the status of compliance. There was never any doubt in our client's mind that the fire risk...

Everyone down in Whoville loved compliance a lot… But the Grinch, who lived just north of the city, did NOT! He hated compliance as much...

Halloween business

Small businesses often use out using things like excel to manage different parts of their compliance systems. It is not unusual for...

The boy looked at Randall Peltzer sternly. “Look Mister, there are some rules that you've got to follow,” he said. Randall said: “Yeah,...

Venkman dropped the phone and looked at Spengler, Stantz, and Winston Zeddemore. “Ah, I don’t know, Ray, this whole being in a firehouse...

“Everyone move one place to the left!” cried the Mad Hatter. It was the strangest tea room Alice had ever seen. The Mad Hatter, the March...

The caterpillar puffed his pipe at Alice. “Eat this side of the mushroom to grow bigger, and this side to grow smaller,” he said, waving...

Risk assessments are legally required and, when done well, form an essential part of a health and safety management system. However, that...

Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far from here, a band of dedicated staff were struggling to cope with the increasing demands of...