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Reflections on pricing the open-enrolment workshops by what people can actually afford, in service of the mission to make work safer, higher-performing, more inclusive and equitable — which would ring hollow if training were only reachable by people in wealthy countries and large, well-budgeted organisations. The piece reframes familiar discounts (student, veteran, pensioner) as 'price discrimination' that uses category as a proxy for affordability, and describes the attempt to remove the proxy and price directly on means, via three tiers: a subsidised rate for the unwaged or those in low-income countries; a self-funded rate for individuals paying personally; and an organisation-funded rate where a business covers the place. One fully free scholarship place is offered on every workshop for those for whom any payment is out of reach, with preference for people from disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds. A concrete expression of the equity-and-access principle that runs through the practice's values.