I agree with all the other comments & would too like to thank you for
your time & effort. I am pretty new to this list but have found it to
be a great help & like others would hate to see it fold,
regards
Tracy Campbell
RGN, SCPHN
Occupational Health
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Kent CT18 8XX
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Sent: 11 October 2013 13:05
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Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] The Occ-health list will soon need another
academic to run it if it is to survive.
Dear Occupational Health list members,
In three months time (11th January 2014), I shall give up my
co-ownership with Anne Harris of the occ-health discussion list. We
need an academic to replace me. Without an academic replacement, the
list will have to fold on that date. Will an academic member of this
list please contact Anne? It has to be an academic in order to meet the
requirements of our funding body (The Higher Education Funding Council
of England) and its stated purpose at the inception of jiscmail and its
discussion lists.
I now feel the need to write a resignation 'speech'. So ...
Bashyr and I started this list quite a long time ago. We got a
membership of over a thousand in less than a year. Members came to us
from all over the globe. Bashyr did a brilliant job and when he'd had
had enough, he left the list and Anne Harris took over his half of the
responsibility. She too has done a brilliant job, in particular in
helping to professionalise the list. She has worked hard on developing
the scope and attitudes of all in OH.
I think the list serves many purposes and does so well. I have been
pleased and proud to help to look after it. One of the principles that
I have always expounded is the multi-discipliniarity of the list: while
the largest membership group is that of OHAs, we have been a broad
church including OHPs, physiotherapists, occupational hygienists, H&S
enforcers and practitioners, mental health professionals, (I've been
told that there are some) HRMs, at least one international labour
lawyer, and, of course, there is my own discipline of occupational
psychology. I wish the list was as international now as it was in the
beginning but there are reasons for the way that has evolved.
So, why am I resigning? In a nutshell, running the list takes its toll.
There are straightforward time demands but there are also emotional
demands including responding to the rudenesses that Anne and I have to
deal with, thankfully mostly off-list. Several times, we have both been
near to pulling out of the list but we both recognise how important it
is to the Occ Health community in all its manifestations and we have
refrained.
The trigger for my decision is a recent faux pas I made. It happened
because I was working very late. The error has told me that I am not a
super-human who can work for ever without rest and without making
errors. If I don't cut down my workload, I might make an ever bigger
blunder.
Hence I give the list three months notice and ask for another academic
to take over; we know there are others out there. Fellow academics do
you value the list sufficiently to want it to continue? If so, come
forward and take over co-ownership of the list?
As a last word and as testimony to the wonderful resource that the list
is, I must single out one fantastic list member for praise: Chris
Packham. Has there ever been such an unselfish and giving person as
Chris? Thank you for embodying the spirit of the Occ-Health list.
Kind regards
Kevin
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