30 Years Ago: April 1991
31 Mar 2021Thirty years ago, the big talk was about pollution. With the Exxon...
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The polls are open!
25 Mar 2021For hundreds of years – possibly millennia, even – people have struggled to...
Learning by Training: Systemic governance
11 Mar 2021Socrates said: “I know that I don’t know”. I believe that this quote...
Not otherwise specified: Fire in the hole
5 Mar 2021Consternation spread around the New York borough of Queens last month after...
30 Years Ago: March 1991
27 Feb 2021Sometimes, when reviewing a copy of HCB from three decades ago, it is easy to...
Confession from the editor
26 Feb 2021I have a confession to make. Don’t tell anyone, but every month I have a...
Learning by Training: Business perspectives?
16 Feb 2021When a gift shop owner committed suicide because he was ordered to close his...
Not otherwise specified: Tabby cat
9 Feb 2021With the new year upon us, here on the Back Page we recently spent a happy...
30 Years Ago: February 1991
1 Feb 2021By 1991, the regulations governing the transport of dangerous goods around the...
Editor’s optimistic letter
28 Jan 2021Speaking to leaders in the industry, as I often do, I have been quite surprised...
Learning by Training: 2020 passed by
13 Jan 2021A moment of reflection when I look back and wonder what happened to our...
Whew! from the Porch Swing
5 Jan 2021What a year! 2020 was quite something different than the usual, wasn’t it? As...
30 Years Ago: January 1991
31 Dec 2020January 1991 had a big impact on the dangerous goods transport business. After...
Editor’s lockdown letter
30 Dec 2020It is traditional, as the year turns, for columns such as this to look ahead...
Learning by Training: Nature strikes back
3 Dec 2020Is your business thriving or suffering due to the Covid-19 restrictions? While...
30 Years Ago: December 1990
27 Nov 2020HCB has written extensively over the past few years about the dangers posed by...
Reflective letter from the editor
24 Nov 2020It is traditional at this time of year to reflect on the year about to end and...
NOS: Fire in the laundry
20 Nov 2020We have seen before, on many occasions, the harm that idle teenagers can do,...
Obituary: Bill O’Neil
9 Nov 2020William A O’Neil, secretary-general emeritus of the International Maritime...
Learning by Training: Shrinking the technosphere
2 Nov 2020I hope that Dmitry Orlov won’t mind that I am borrowing the title of his...
30 Years Ago: November 1990
29 Oct 2020The November 1990 issue of HCB was another chunky number, with plenty of...
