I googled the Bradford Score - as with many things I learn about from this blog (Zavanelli manoeuvre being the most eye-watering) it made me that little bit more likely to want to resign from the human race. Worse yet, were the "consultancy" sites offering various products based on it to "reduce sickies"/"see staff sickness levels drop" - presumably they are all miracle workers, so let's appoint them to go work in areas stricken with HIV or ebola or something, and see them work their magic. So the basic supposition is staff (of any kind) are lying chancers who, once they know "we're" onto them, will straighten up and fly right, albeit reluctantly. IMO this is a chronic symptom of the "guilty until proven innocent" culture we are increasingly moving towards - in fact, this is the buboe on the bum, of the control-freak's surveillance age of fear and coercion. There's a four letter word or two that I'd like to use to describe these scum, but I really can't be bothered.