Thursday, 6 December 2012
Top 10 Transport Safety Videos
As Christmas is the time of top 10 anything you can think of, I've put together my top 10 transport safety videos. I'm not a great fan of the shock and horror tactics and you'll see that reflected here. As with all top 10's not everyone will agree, so please feel free to let me know any that you thought should/shouldn't have made the list.
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Office Christmas Party? Leave the car at home
So you’ve picked the venue, the food, your outfit, who you’re going to try to catch (or avoid!) under the mistletoe, but have you thought about how you’re going to get home and, if it’s going to be a late night, how you’ll get to work in the morning?
Whether it’s a sit-down meal at lunchtime or a let-your-hair-down night on the dance floor, or anything in between, the office Christmas ‘do’ will no doubt involve a drink or two…or more. Even a small amount of alcohol will affect your ability to drive and last year, over the Christmas period, 110 drivers in Cambridgeshire were arrested having failed a breath test. Many of these drivers were stopped by police the morning after they had been out, not realising that they were still over the limit.
Your body will take approximately one hour to process one unit of alcohol starting about an hour after you finish drinking.
So, if you’ve had three large (250ml) glasses of wine it could be up to 12 hours before all the alcohol is out of your system, depending on the strength of the wine. No ‘magic’ hangover cure will speed up this process, even if it does make you feel better, so the best advice is to leave the car at home on the day of the party and the morning after. Why not take the bus, train or a taxi instead?
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