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Integrated health, safety and environmental management
Science, Maths & Technology

Integrated health, safety and environmental management

...Open University course T835, Integrated health, safety and environmental management... Integrated health, safety and environmental management A brief introduction to this album. Risk and biscuit manufacture Fox's biscuit factory might not seem a terribly dangerous place, but in fact there are many risks involved with biscuit manufacture, and Fox's have evolved a stringent...
Living with visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with visual Impairment

...Open University's Pre-registration nursing programme... Living with visual Impairment A short introduction to this album. Visual Impairment Jackie's Experience Of acute transitory visual impairment as a result of MS, including her experience of difficulties with lighting and contrast. Emotional Impact Jackie talks about the emotional impact of losing her sight Nurse...
Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability

...Open University course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future... Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability A short introduction to this album. What makes customers choose a green tariff? Customers who have opted for a green tariff talk about the reasons why they have decided to do so. The uptake of green tariffs Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by...
What does Brexit mean for imports and exports?
Money & Business

What does Brexit mean for imports and exports?

...resourcing issues for HMRC. According to the World Customs Organisation’s Annual Report, the UK has about 5,000 customs staff. But the actual figure of staff with experience in the administration of international trade related customs procedures is likely to be significantly less. This compares poorly with similar-sized countries, such as France (16,500 customs staff)....
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...resources to be exploited for human comfort and wealth. Climate psychology includes an understanding of this history and the challenges involved in reshaping human individuals so as to live differently, within planetary boundaries, in a new historical period defined by the ending of fossil fuel Modernity (Hollway, Hoggett, Robertson and Weintrobe 2022). It recognises the...
Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
History & The Arts

Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?

...resources of England were so far exhausted by fighting the battles of Europe, that it was impossible for her successfully to sustain a new war. On the first conquest of France, the American Government found it impossible to continue the contest with a hope of gaining any advantages, much less such as were absolutely necessary to console the people for the sacrifices to...
How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...Resources Board’s laboratory, however, they passed. The road test emissions numbers in the lab all fell within the accepted levels of NOx emissions. Following investigations into the matter, VW has admitted to gaming the US air pollution tests. Nearly half a million cars have been recalled for containing “defeat device” software that only turns on the cars'...
What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...resources. Thirdly, this is in essence a shift towards an unprecedented economic and cultural competition that might intensify conflict between declining powers (i.e. US and the UK) and emerging powers (i.e. China and India) for global domination. We can see this shift in both Trump’s claims that he will act more aggressively in international relations with Asia, and in...