ISO 14001 Environmental Management for Employees

ISO 14001 is an internationally recognised standard for managing an organisation’s environmental impact. Every organisation can more effectively manage their resources. Organisations operating to an ISO 14001 system will have processes, procedures and policies for minimising or eliminating negative environmental…

Workplace Wellbeing

The HSE defines stress as ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them’. Employers have a responsibility to ensure that the tasks and the demands made of employees is realistic for the…

NEW COURSE: GDPR Overview

With the GDPR deadline fast approaching (25th May 2018), Assent Risk Management has released a FREE online course to help break down the requirements of GDPR and give you a breakdown of some actions that will help you to prepare.…

Shared Learning – The Value of Collaboration

Effective learning depends on the learner having an interest in the topic.  If that interest doesn’t come naturally, because the learning is something required by an employer or a professional organisation, it is helpful to find something that is of…

More about the process of learning

We make sense of the world by measuring what our senses present us with against what we already know.  The new information may change the information we already had, or we may class it as incorrect, partly correct or not…

What is Learning?

What is learning? There are many variations on the definition of what learning actually is.  All definitions seem to agree that some change takes place because of something. In his 2016 book ‘What is Learning’, Mark Haselgrove says there is…