Professional Recovery 370
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RECOVERYINSIDER<br />
It takes even more strength and commitment to challenge those in power<br />
and to say things as they are without holding back on delivering the overriding<br />
message staying true to your beliefs. However, it’s often those individuals who<br />
stand up to be counted who place their own livelihood and businesses as some<br />
considerable risk.<br />
These are the actions of one individual who needs no introduction, it’s Richard<br />
Goddard, and the latest article I’m referring to is in the last <strong>Professional</strong> <strong>Recovery</strong><br />
Magazine issue Edit 369. Some will say Richard is a bit of a marmite character, you<br />
either love him or hate him, but either way, he only has the very best interests of<br />
the recovery industry at heart.<br />
The headline of the article says it all, “Complete and utter Contempt”, and when<br />
you step back and review the facts, once again he is quite right. If you haven’t read<br />
the article, then I suggest you go to the magazine rack in your reception office and<br />
dig it out.<br />
Some readers will be thinking “Red Lights Again”, you’re just wasting your time.<br />
Personally, I don’t think so. Forget the fact it’s a calling for a change in the lighting<br />
regulations, consider it exactly as Richard has described it - an industry asking for<br />
the same safety conditions as any other.<br />
Yes, this debate is decades old and each time I hear someone say, why should<br />
one group of workers be safer than another, that’s exactly the point, that is called<br />
discrimination.<br />
Quoted from the Oxford English Dictionary “Discrimination is the act of making<br />
unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories<br />
to which they belong or are perceived to belong. Discrimination especially occurs when<br />
individuals or groups are unfairly treated in a way which is worse than other people are<br />
treated, on the basis of their actual or perceived membership in certain groups or social<br />
categories. It involves restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges<br />
that are available to members of another group”.<br />
PROFESSIONAL RECOVERY MAGAZINE 11<br />
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