Health, work and wellbeing conference

That's where I am, in Birmingham. And among the things i've learnt today are:

• In the US Ford spends more on employee healthcare than on components/raw materials for its vehicles.
• If you start at Westminster on the London underground's Jubilee Line and travel to Stratford in the East, average life expectancy of the population is one year lower at every station.
• The UK Olympic Delivery Authority completed the biggest tunnelling operation in Europe recently, moving underground the powerlines which criss-crossed the 2012 site. The only reportable accident they had involved a worker breaking his toe. As Lawrence Waterman, head of heath and safety at the ODA pointed out, tunnelling was once seen as so hazardous they used to talk about the norm being "a death a mile".