From the Porch Swing: You cannot be serious!
6 May 2020Au contraire, I am absolutely serious, thoroughly serious, and to a mammoth...
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NOS: Gone fishin’
4 May 2020Here on the Back Page we are aware that there are probably some of you who...
30 Years Ago: May 1990
1 May 2020These columns often find parallels between the news HCB was presenting thirty...
The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Transportation Of Dangerous Goods
28 Apr 2020The transportation of dangerous goods is highly regulated throughout the world....
Business: Response and recovery
23 Apr 2020On 31 December 2019, the outbreak of a respiratory illness in Wuhan City in...
Learning by Training: Business as usual?
16 Apr 2020On LinkedIn and Twitter I have been following an avalanche of posts and replies...
Editor’s letter from isolation
13 Apr 2020It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good. While much of the world is in...
From the porch swing: The Onion
7 Apr 2020Dateline Brussels – The European Space Agency was forced to announce today...
Coronavirus: Let’s work together
3 Apr 2020The Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) is urging global...
30 Years Ago: April 1990
30 Mar 2020Our issue thirty years ago was strangely prescient, concentrating very much –...
Herbert Kennard: 1919-2020
27 Mar 2020It is with great sadness that HCB reports the death of long-time contributor...
NOS: Unhealthy living
23 Mar 2020Regular readers will know that here on the Back Page we have little truck with...
Learning by Training: VUCA and Corona
16 Mar 2020I have just returned from Rotterdam where, despite the Coronavirus crisis, the...
Editor’s letter from self-isolation
10 Mar 2020Talk about bad timing… Only last month in this column I was exhorting you all...
30 Years Ago: March 2020
2 Mar 2020Thirty years ago, then-editor Mike Corkhill opened the March 1990 edition of...
Confession from the Porch Swing
2 Mar 2020I hate to admit it, but it’s true. The ‘From the Porch Swing’ column...
Not otherwise specified: Bang bang you’re dead
27 Feb 2020It must be an interesting life being involved in emergency response. We dare...
Editor’s letter on the road
21 Feb 2020When I joined HCB in 1993, I knew next to nothing about the regulations that...
Learning by Training: Davos
7 Feb 2020Every year since 2009 I have read the Global Risks Report issued just before...
NOS: Fresh air fiends
3 Feb 2020As regular readers of the Back Page may well have spotted by now, there are...
30 Years Ago: February 1990
3 Feb 2020The February 1990 issue of HCB kicked off with comments from editor Mike...
