Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Business Contingency Planning

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

As I sit here waiting to fly home, I thought that I would review how we have coped as a business with the enforced stay in Bahrain, is there anything that Mackenzie Morgan can do better or differently to ensure that our business successfully continues! Incidentally, there was an excellent programme on the BBC World Service earlier in the week  on the same topic, it is due to be repeated catch it if you can! (more…)

The Volcano – my impressions

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Just thought I would put a quick article out on the great Volcano! A topic I am well acquainted with being as I am currently in Bahrain; I must add that even though I am waiting for a return flight I am in a far more favourable position than the vast majority of other people trying to get to Europe, I can anticipate another visit to BAhrain and continue to work. I have been an avid viewer of all the various news sources, both offical and un-official. I have been impressed with the speed and responsiveness of the social media sites, particularly Twitter.

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Thoughts and Hopes!

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Another in the random series from the coalface of  our industry – what I have a seen and thought recently! I might as well put the enforced time away from home to good use! (more…)

Duty of Care – The Sequal

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Back in November 2009, we published an article on the Duty of Care, http://tinyurl.com/yjrxckt that an employer has with regard to their employees during work and how this, will and does, extend to the use of local aviation support for the movement those employees to and from their place of work. I was interested to read that major resource development companies are moving in the direction of non-company specific standards. The plan is to develop a proactive programme rather than to react to an incident – “prevention is better than cure”.  This is the time for major users of contracted aviation support to start to think about their operations and develop their own robust plans.

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What I learnt from that!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Well after an extended absence on the blogging front, here is the latest offering. The title nods to a famous and now out of production in-house publication, mentions in dispatches to the first correct identification of the publication.

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