A few weeks back, our Executive Chairman Tony Murphy was clearing out a cupboard at our Ramsgate office and pulled out a folded paper booklet. Photocopied. Hand-illustrated. Comic Sans throughout. The cover read “SITE SAFETY GUIDE — Rev—Apr 08” — the version Watkins issued to every operative seventeen years ago, slipped into pockets, kept in every site container.
It’s a beautiful little artefact from the era when Wyn Watkins — the founder’s son — was Safety Manager. Eighteen years on, every principle in it still holds. We’ve digitised the booklet as a flick-through flipbook and put it side-by-side with the modern Watkins Academy tools that carry the same ideas forward.
