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Nonsense Goals and Language on Display

June 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Nonsense Goals and Language on Display One of the things that Safety does best is speak meaningless language and create reverse goals. When one defines safety numerically and then makes up binary nonsense language to match, it makes for pretty stupid rhetoric. There is nothing more absurd than … [Read more...] about Nonsense Goals and Language on Display

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: fallibility, Goals, Zero Harm

Understanding Safety Goals

June 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 11 Comments

Unless the safety community are prepared to be a bit more sophisticated and less simplistic about goal setting we will continue to fuel scepticism via non-sense prevention goals like zero harm, rather than safety promotion in the workplace.  Understanding Safety Goals ‘Rather than measure what we … [Read more...] about Understanding Safety Goals

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: goal setting, Safety Goals, safety slogan, Zero Harm

Olympic Goals and Zero Harm

June 28, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

If this article and the excellent analogies provided by Dr Robert Long doesn't convince you that the philosophy of “Zero Harm” is at serious odds with the path to success and achievement of reasonable goals in the real world then nothing will and you are a lost cause. If you liked this article then … [Read more...] about Olympic Goals and Zero Harm

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: achievable goals, athletes, Olympics, safety slogan, smart goals, Sport Safety, Zero Harm

Goals and Vision in Safety

October 7, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

Goals and Vision in Safety Safety is the industry of lower order goals (see Figure 1. Goal States). Safety functions under the false slogan ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. It chooses to ignore a much better aphorism and that is: ‘you can’t count what counts’. We have known for a long … [Read more...] about Goals and Vision in Safety

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: behaviourism, Goals, KPI, measurement, vision

Target Trade-Offs and Numeric Goals

June 3, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Target Trade-Offs and Numeric Goals We learn recently that Victorian Police – a supposed institution of trust, has fabricated numbers over the past 5 years  in order to meet targets. It is reported today that Victoria Police have fabricated 258,000 breath tests in order to meet targets. How is this … [Read more...] about Target Trade-Offs and Numeric Goals

Filed Under: Lead and Lag Indicators, Robert Long, Safety Statistics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: safety targets

DUMB Goals for Fallible People

February 22, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

DUMB Goals for Fallible People   The language of perfection is non-sense for fallible people. Speaking infallibility to the fallible is a sure recipe for alienation and delusion. As language forms the bedrock of culture, language of infallibility sets up those speaking it for hypocrisy and … [Read more...] about DUMB Goals for Fallible People

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: dumb, Goals, SMART

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

June 4, 2016 by Alan Quilley 28 Comments

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results By Alan Quilley I've been doing a great deal of thinking and writing about the variety of associated problems with using injury data to support the belief that low injury/damage results equate to a corporation being safe. The truth is that very safely … [Read more...] about The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Zero Harm Tagged With: zero goals, Zero Harm

The Craziness of Injury Goals

October 3, 2015 by Admin 1 Comment

The Craziness of Injury Goals I used to work for a company that would budget to have a certain number of lost time injuries and fatalities each year. That may seem unconscionable today but it was not because they wanted or liked to hurt people or didn't care about them, it was for the Boardroom and … [Read more...] about The Craziness of Injury Goals

Filed Under: Risk Management, Safety Statistics Tagged With: fatalities, incidents, injury goals, measuring, risk, statistics

Important Stuff To Think About Before Setting Zero Goals

June 12, 2015 by Admin 9 Comments

WANTED: Non-marketing success stories and articles about the positives of zero harm targets and programs……… Full credit to the ASSE for daring to publish an article like this – very mature, progressive and refreshing – you impressed and motivated a lot of people! Important Stuff To Think About … [Read more...] about Important Stuff To Think About Before Setting Zero Goals

Filed Under: Safety Statistics, Zero Harm Tagged With: asse, goal setting, perfection, targets, Zero Harm

Zero Incident Goals Motivate Risk-Taking

May 10, 2014 by Admin Leave a Comment

Zero Incident Goals Motivate Risk-Taking, Not Excellence Just came across the interesting article by Shawn M. Galloway. Shaun makes a good point when he says that in organisations that promote zero harm as being safety excellence then anything an employee does and isn’t harmed is probably … [Read more...] about Zero Incident Goals Motivate Risk-Taking

Filed Under: Zero Harm Tagged With: risk taking, safety excellence, Zero Harm

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