Political letter from the editor
17 Jun 2024The word ‘politics’ does not normally interfere with the general business...
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NOS: Shoot ’em up
7 Jun 2024Class 1 covers a very wide range of substances and articles, from small...
30 Years Ago: June 1994
31 May 2024Looking back, the maritime industry turned a big corner thirty years ago....
Learning by Training: Order or disorder?
24 May 2024The first law of thermodynamics is the Law of Conservation of Energy. Universal...
Tall Tales of Hazmat: Learning lessons
22 May 2024Does every disaster produce meaningful prevention methods? Do even most...
Volatile letter from the editor
10 May 2024It is that time of year when companies are releasing their first quarter...
NOS: Kids these days
3 May 2024Each month seems to bring more stories that illustrate the unknowability of...
30 Years Ago: May 1994
1 May 2024There is always a risk, with the benefit of hindsight, in writing an article...
Learning by Training: Boost your competency
26 Apr 2024What I discovered when researching information theory as part of physics is...
Tall Tales of Hazmat: Things you rely on in court
18 Apr 2024We’ll start with two words that seem to do the same job – poisonous and...
NOS: Right place, wrong time
12 Apr 2024Our lead story this month comes from Utah, where six people were injured in a...
Political letter from the editor
5 Apr 2024In the 1980s, the BBC comedy series Yes Minister introduced British TV viewers...
30 Years Ago – April 1994
1 Apr 2024It is not too far-fetched to state that the modern world as we now know it...
Learning by Training: A crisis of perception
22 Mar 2024A recent book by Peter Oborne titled The Assault on Truth (2021) describes the...
Tall Tales of Hazmat: Restricted Articles
15 Mar 2024Some case examples of moving dangerous goods by air show how, early in the...
NOS: Let my pigeon go!
8 Mar 2024We are not sure whether to laugh or cry: a pigeon has been released after eight...
Editor’s informative letter
6 Mar 2024I was very saddened to hear recently of the death of Frank Andreesen, former...
30 Years Ago: March 1994
29 Feb 2024Those who have come into the dangerous goods business in the past twenty years...
Tall tales of hazmat: Never trust a fart
26 Feb 2024Reading this back before releasing it into the wild, the era of the author’s...
Learning by Training: Storytelling
22 Feb 2024What if the profound sciences and ideas taught by Dr Fritjof Capra and others...
Not otherwise specified: Little creatures
16 Feb 2024There is something of a zoological theme to the Back Page this month. We begin...