This includes universities, professional bodies, and private training companies. Britain's training resources service an international business. We have tapped into this resource and brought together the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Association of Bulgarian Insurers to develop a forward-looking insurance industry for Bulgaria through the implementation of a national strategy for insurance education and training . Our first involvement in health and safety was in May 1998 when we were asked by the Committee of Energy to arrange an exploratory visit by officers from the Health and Safety Executive to assess the health and safety environment in the Bulgarian mining industry. Worldwide the failure of organisations to provide adequate and effective health and safety management has been a consistent conclusion in numerous official accident and incident enquiry reports.
Safety is everybody's business.
With German and French colleagues we are providing education management training for language school principals, and discussing with European and Bulgarian partners a workshop on public libraries and the Internet. The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. Registered in England as a Charity.