Dear List
I can quite understand Kevin deciding to resign from co-ownership and I hope
you will all join me in thanking him for all he has done.
Kevin started the list with Bashyr and it has grown from strength to
strength. Kevin is not exagerating when he refers to the amount of time that
managing the list requires to ensure its continuation. He also refers to the
rudeness of some JISC members when we have had to enforce the JISC rules of
engagement re not advertising for recruitment opportunities and not posting
the jokey "Friday Funnies".
So - I would like to thank Kevin for everything he has done for the list. I
also endorse his thanks to Chris Packham in particular for sharing his
specialist knowledge so freely. Of course Chris is not the only one - there
are also a few other star contributors from whom I have learned so much.
Anne
Co-manager
Course Director
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
On 11/10/2013 13:04, "Kevin Maguire" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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 heąd 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 donąt 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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