Corporate Manslaughter - How safe are your staff when they travel?

With the impending Corporate Manslaughter legislation coming into effect this April, one of the implications will be the responsibility of companies to ensure the safety of their staff while travelling on business. This could have far reaching consequences - what airlines are being used? Have the hotels been checked? What about ground transport? Companies will have to consider these issues, or face potentially crippling fines.

Read Matthew Judge's article in HR Zone here.

Getting employees back to work after a crisis

Employees can experience shock and trauma after an event, even if they have not been direct involved. Feelings of anxiety, stress and depression can surface at any time and can impact on the individual and his/her team members.

In this blog post, Dwight Bain discusses some of the issues and offers some insights into the more frequent questions.

Read his post here:

Britons lack email security awareness

A British worker is almost twice as likely to open a suspicous email as his French counterpart. The Japanese on the other hand, are the most likely to open an unsafe attachment.

These are the findings of a study performed by Cisco, looking at the habits of corporate workers. See Ron Condon's report in Search Security here (yes, it is safe to click this. Honestly)

Disaster recovery - how ready is your organisation?

How would you cope if you suddenly lost access to your IT systems? How would affect your home workers? What about your customers? Could your suppliers communicate effectively with you?

So many companies are now 100% reliant on the integrity of their IT systems. Intranets, extranets, websites, booking forms, emails, personnel records - all depend on the IT infra-structure to remain operative, come what may. And yet many firms risk the very survival of their business by leaving the resilience of their systems largely to chance.

Read the E-zine article by Clint Seagrave here:

Crisis Briefs

A 70 year-old Italian man who had been pretending to be blind for 40 years to get an invalid's pension was arrested as he drove his car (AFP).

The "particularly nervous" man was stopped during a routine road check in the northern city of Spezia and could not provide a driving licence, city police chief Massimo Giaramita said.

"Then we checked his medical record and were amazed to find that he was registered as 100 percent blind," Giaramita said. He had been claiming an invalidity pension and other benefits from his former employers for 40 years, the report said.

And another driving story to finish.. A Bosnian driver was so drunk that he should have been dead when arrested with a blood alcohol level 20 times the legal limit, police said. "I was shocked with the alcohol test results. Most people would slip into a deep coma and die with concentration of 0.4 percent," police officer Damir Cutura told AFP.

After being warned by other drivers on Tuesday of a car zigzagging across lanes, police drove out and arrested Branko Milicevic near the southern town of Citluk. Police were shocked to see test results showing the man's blood alcohol concentration level was 0.6 percent. The legal limit in Bosnia is 0.03 percent.

"I required that the alcohol breath-testing device be checked, but only to discover that it worked properly," Cutura said.

The driver has been released pending trial. (AFP)