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Our friends & well-wishers
Explorer Polar guide Expedition leader BBCTV presenter
Paul is also an expedition safety expert. He shares our passion for adventure and sensible, considered risk taking.
Ray Mears
Bush craft and survival expert
“I wish your team all the best and be safe!”
Judith Hackitt CBE HSE Chairwoman
“The eye-catching ways the Team have shown that a proportionate approach to risk need not get in the way of fun is highly commendable.” |
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If it’s mad, stupid or idiotic, we’ll be there! |
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Why the Black Ice Race?
We join in with events and activities to keep fit, have fun, show solidarity, and make our point. However, they’re all leading us up to taking on an extreme example of sensible risk management - a Siberian ultra-extreme race.
What? A hazardous 155 mile race, on foot, from Irkutsk in Siberia to Olkon Island - half way up Lake Baikal.
We’ll be pulling all our supplies on pulks with no aids such as dogs or kites across black ice with temperatures as low as -40C and wind speeds up to 80mph.
Why? It’s a hazardous, extreme challenge, and a World first. We’ll have to manage the serious risks of frost bite from wind-chill temperatures of -650C, falling through thin ice, and tent fire from the stoves.
However, we want to show that with determination, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things - and as health & safety officers ourselves, we’ll show that real health & safety enables people to do hazardous things, rather than stopping them.
Using standard health & safety risk management principles, we will manage the risks: Þ risk awareness Þ preparation Þ training Þ safeguards Þ personal protective equipment.
When? March 2012 |
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Three Peaks Challenge Sept 2008 |
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Roger & Keith’s New Years Day swim |
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World Mountain Bike Chariot Racing Championships |
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“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done” Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951) |
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Recent events |
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Seasonal myth - Christmas decorations |
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World Bog Snorkelling Championships 2008 |
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“The World’s most terrifying race and challenge of a lifetime”. Extreme World Races |
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Great Spitalfields Pancake Race |
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National finalists & Award of Excellence - LGA Team of the Year award |
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We’re Health & Safety Gone Mad - a team of four environmental health officers out to show that real health & safety properly used is about saving lives, not stopping them. It’s about enabling people to do hazardous activities, sensibly ...and not about blocking adventure and fun. To prove it we’re taking on the most terrifying race on Earth.
In our own time we’ve also been showing solidarity with the best of British - giving advice and joining in with some of our great traditional events who’s futures are often threatened - mistakenly blamed on ‘elf & safety’. |
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The human hanging basket |
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Worthing Birdman competition 2009 |
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Surfing the Severn Bore |
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Roger’s fire walk |
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Commando Challenge 2009 |
