Children and Health and Safety, positive foundations........

Children and Health and Safety, positive foundations……

The growth of Health and Safety is ad course wide spread, integrated throughout everything we do. Look around you and you will be hard stretched to see something not affected by Health and Safety legislation. This is ad course a positive, a healthy balance of safety, safe working environments and duty of care for each others safety, reduces our risk of injury or death.  But we should ponder if, and how we can stop this being detrimental for future generations.

Those of you who know me, know that I like adventure sports, like kayaking, climbing, mountaineering and bouldering. All of which put the “duty of care” upon myself. When I travel outdoors, I don’t have supervisors and paper risk assessments.

WAIT ! I hear you shout…….. but how do you stay safe ????

Housing crisis ?

Optimistic visions ? Or the start of a revolution ?

For a long time now we have debated the so called “housing crisis” hitting the UK. As an avid outdoor sports enthusiast, these debates have swayed me from moments of fear, hysteria, to moments of ‘head in sand’. But as I see the many proposals, almost surrounding the town in which I live, I wonder what will the future hold. Will I one day have to travel for hours on end, to find green areas to walk the dog, will I swap my mountain bike for a cycle machine ? or my kayaking equipment with a rowing machine ?  Will my future children only experience the great outdoors, once a month? once a year ? on a games console ? Watching wildlife documentary’s ? Or playing football on an AstroTurf.