In The £150 Billion Blind Spot: The slow-burn crisis hiding in plain sight
Dr Julie Riggs confronts an uncomfortable truth: while we rigorously control visible safety risks, we have learned to tolerate health risks that would be unthinkable if they were sudden or dramatic. The result is a slow-burn crisis hiding in plain sight, costing the UK economy around £150 billion a year and steadily eroding workforce capacity and resilience. Blending population health data, behavioural science and safety thinking, this talk reframes health not as wellbeing or healthcare, but as risk, a risk we have normalised and pushed downstream. It is a wake-up call for leaders and safety professionals who believe prevention must move upstream, before harm becomes inevitable.