The T8 Blog
Practical, plain-English guides to health, safety, and workplace training — plus the occasional word on what we're seeing across the industry. Written by Darren, built around 30+ years of actually doing this work.
Who I Was, Not What I Could Do
Do we actually practise EDI, or just have a policy for it? Two job offers, thirty years apart, that were about who I was — not what I could do.
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Living With It, Then Living Beyond It
A personal post for Suicide Prevention Month — on hiding it for years, on therapies that helped for a few weeks and then stopped, and on the one that finally didn't.
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Apprenticeships Deserve Better — Nearly 20 Years In
Nearly two decades in the apprenticeship world has taught me what's genuinely improved, what we got wrong, and why I still believe apprenticeships are one of the most valuable tools we have.
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When Are We Going to Stop This?
Falls from height accounted for around a quarter of all worker deaths in Great Britain in 2025/26. Two recent prosecutions show exactly why — and why training alone isn't the whole answer.
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