Back on line....and a note on asbestos

A few days R&R over the ditch are over. Rob Fyfe's  empire is about to fly me back to little ol' NZ. And I'm happy at the thought.

I'm not so happy about the story I heard over the weekend from a lawyer in Oz about the HR strategies of companies knowingly using asbestos, which look (or looked) to recruit staff over 45, on the basis that any subsequent death might be after retirement and disputable in terms of the effects of asbestos. It's a bit like the NZ company I once had described to me, which took a cost-benefit approach to H&S, and decided that they could wear the cost of compensation from claims arising from managerial H&S malpractice. So it goes....