Not otherwise specified: Playing with fire
1 Nov 2019Regardless of what they would like to believe, humans are – by and large –...
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30 Years Ago: November 1989
31 Oct 2019Every so often we field an enquiry from someone – who has a better memory...
Circular letter from the editor
21 Oct 2019It is good to be able to spend some time at the desk after a hectic few weeks...
Learning by Training: Sully and the human factor
14 Oct 2019Recently I watched the movie Sully with Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart. Perhaps...
Editor’s letter from Berlin
7 Oct 2019We live in interesting times. Geopolitical and geostrategic factors are...
Not otherwise specified: Terror in the toilet
7 Oct 2019As lightning strikes go, it was unerringly accurate. In August, a family in...
30 Years Ago: October 1989
27 Sep 2019There was a time when the LNG industry was small; thirty years ago there were...
Learning by Training: HSE and our brain
10 Sep 2019I’d like to tell you something about behavioural safety. As a professional...
NOS: Fishing for dangers
9 Sep 2019Readers will probably be aware of ‘detectorists’ – those people, usually...
30 Years Ago: September 1989
30 Aug 2019By September 1989, HCB was nearing the end of its first decade of publication...
Terminal letter from the editor
28 Aug 2019Over my time at HCB – more than 25 years now – I have had to introduce any...
NOS: Golden showers
9 Aug 2019Here on the Back Page we love a good headline as much as anyone, so when we saw...
Learning by Training: Mind the learning gap
5 Aug 2019During the last eight years I have trained many marine tank storage operators...
From the Porch Swing: Where are the periods in HCB?
1 Aug 2019Will I lose my job as an occasional columnist if I don’t know if the magazine...
Letter from the Editor: Let’s talk
29 Jul 2019It can’t be easy being responsible for managing dangerous goods or hazmat...
30 Years Ago: August 1989
26 Jul 2019These days, a cost of doing business in the dangerous goods logistics sector...
NOS: Food, flares and fires
12 Jul 2019In his View from the Porch Swing this month, our columnist Gene Sanders...
Learning by Training: Aliens
2 Jul 2019When I sit down to write this column, I usually don’t know what to write...
BROEKMAN LOGISTICS – FILLING, DRUMMING AND BAGGING
19 Jun 2019...
From the Porch Swing: Eating hazmat
18 Jun 2019I like to eat and I like hazmat. There doesn’t seem to be much overlap...
30 Years Ago: June 1989
29 May 2019Thirty years ago, HCB readers were presented with a bumper 100-page issue, not...