November 2010 - SQT Training

Money…or the lack there of.

I came across this short piece recently which, although written many, many years ago, somehow still seems very relevant to the times we are having. So as the IMF / EU strategies and December budget cuts come into force, it might be worth remembering… For money you can have ev...

A Free Energy Manager?

A new article in this month’s Envirosolutions, claims that Organisations are failing to take advantage of the opportunities to save money through improved energy purchasing and efficiency. In the current rather challenging times, organisations should be looking at every ave...

‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’

The old adage that ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’, is so obvious and worthy of the Homer Simpson ‘Dah really’, that it is hard to believe that many of us don’t apply this basic principle or else we apply it incorrectly i.e., we measure the wrong th...

Safer Roads

A network of privatised mobile speed enforcement cameras begins operating today. A Road Collision Factbook produced this year by the Road Safety Authority shows that in single-vehicle crashes, speed was cited as the main factor in 54 per cent of cases. The new cameras will monito...