HEALTH, SAFETY & CHILD CARE

I just saw my eldest son go off The Tombstone, our biggest coasteering jump. Scary. You do all the sums, all the risk assessments, check and file all the qualifications, interview everybody five times, measure the water depth, test all the equipment...and you still feel ill when they jump off the big one. I have never been so pleased to see his mad grin as when he broke the surface and tapped his helmet twice to let the instructor know he was ok.

Everything is streaming into place at work. Pressure’s increasing now and the company’s like an engine starting to pull hard. All the little stuff, all the things we’ve learnt, all add together when we get to do what we've trained all year for. A bit of friction running up to the start of our season made me feel really jumpy: what’s gonna happen when we have to deliver service and make good all the promises made in this year’s marketing? The pressure seems to suit us better than the build-up.

Had a 2 1/2 hour meeting with HSE this morning. They really seem to get it, how it works, what we’re doing. Get it or not we have to keep revising and updating all the systems that keep everybody safe, and keep proving on paper that we’ve done a good job. Bring it on.