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Barry’s Latest Safety Innovation Discovery

July 22, 2022 by Barry Spud 3 Comments

If you are sick of trying to discern real risk, want to exclude a big chunk of your workforce and are completely over having meaningful conversations about PPE with workers who have absolutely no common sense then you will love what I found on Linkedin today! It comes with a big mirror so workers … [Read more...] about Barry’s Latest Safety Innovation Discovery

Filed Under: PPE, Safety Satire

Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time

June 27, 2022 by Barry Spud 14 Comments

Using a new iphone app, a team of social psychology experts has analysed every meaningless aphorism and every condescending platitude ever displayed in the workplace to come up with a list of the most effective safety slogans of all time. Research project leader, Prof. Gerhardt Spudovsky, said: … [Read more...] about Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time

Filed Under: Safety Satire, Safety Slogans & Pictures Tagged With: safety slogans

Spot the Hazards – What is Wrong With These Safety Photos?

June 16, 2022 by Barry Spud 3 Comments

Spot the Safety Hazards - What is Wrong With These Safety Photos? Each issue of WorkSafe™ Magazine includes a safety photo that has been staged to show a number of hazards or potentially dangerous work practices. The online version is highly interactive and includes ability to place pins and … [Read more...] about Spot the Hazards – What is Wrong With These Safety Photos?

Filed Under: Safety Photos, Safety Pictures, Toolbox Talks Tagged With: hazard identification, Hazard Pictures, Safety Pictures, spot the hazard

Things To Consider When Developing And Designing Your Company SWMS

May 29, 2021 by Barry Spud 2 Comments

Things To Consider When Developing And Designing Your Company SWMS Guest Post Download examples: [download id="107223"] [download id="107227"] The Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) is one important document that is valuable in establishing business safety systems, especially for … [Read more...] about Things To Consider When Developing And Designing Your Company SWMS

Filed Under: Construction Safety, Work Method Statements Tagged With: safe work method statements, swms

Take 5 Safety Drills

May 14, 2021 by Barry Spud 5 Comments

Take 5 Safety Drills Take 5 Safety Drills are five minute safety drills developed for quick practice of safety protocols.  The drills consist of general topics like health, wellness, safety communications, disasters, safety equipment, and responses.  Additional drills for specific … [Read more...] about Take 5 Safety Drills

Filed Under: Workplace Safety Tagged With: Take 5

Bad Safety Photos

December 20, 2020 by Barry Spud 3 Comments

Pictures of Very Unsafe Acts No matter how hard we try to find and provide serious safety information and downloads, the most common searches on this site are for “bad safety photos”, stupid safety photos”, “pictures of unsafe acts” and “funny safety pictures”. Here are a few more. Please send us … [Read more...] about Bad Safety Photos

Filed Under: Safety Photos, Safety Pictures Tagged With: bad safety photos, pictures of unsafe acts, safety images, Safety Pictures, stpud safety photos

Why Do We Love Stupid Safety Photos

December 14, 2020 by Barry Spud Leave a Comment

Why Do We Love Stupid Safety Photos? In the world of safety management, why do we find it so appealing to watch videos or photos of people committing unsafe acts and doing stupid things at home or work.  We safety management professionals laugh at photos on free sites like www.safetyphoto.co.uk.  … [Read more...] about Why Do We Love Stupid Safety Photos

Filed Under: Safety Photos, Safety Pictures, Safety Slogans & Pictures Tagged With: adulthood, concrete block, decorum, Free Safety Stuff, horizontal ladder, human makeup, management professionals, old drivers, safety goggles, Safety Management, Safety Pictures, Safety Signs, sense development, skill set, Stupid safety photos, stupid things, unsafe acts, valid reasoning, vertical ladder

Barry Spud’s Hazard Control Tips

August 28, 2020 by Barry Spud Leave a Comment

Barry Spud’s Hazard Control Tips - The Hierarchy Of Hazard Control Barry Spud tells: “The Hierarchy of Hazard Control (I call it the “HOHC”) is the one of the main weapons, in the Safety Crusader’s arsenal, in the war on lost time injuries. It takes a certifiable Safety Expert like myself to know … [Read more...] about Barry Spud’s Hazard Control Tips

Filed Under: Hazards, Risk Management, Safety Humor, Zero Harm Tagged With: barry spud, hierachy of control, HOC, Zero Harm

Safety Rules, OK

July 26, 2020 by Barry Spud 2 Comments

Safety celebrates over 100 years of zero change……….. MORE ON SAFETY RULES: Golden Safety Rules There are Safety Rules and there are Golden Safety Rules. Following the news about two BHP workers sacked for breaching “Life Saving Rules” then being reinstated when the courts determined that their … [Read more...] about Safety Rules, OK

Filed Under: Safety Leadership Tagged With: safety rules

Template – Zero Harm Advisor

July 9, 2020 by Barry Spud 10 Comments

In the interests of supporting the safety industry, we here at Safetyrisk provide hundreds of templates to save you time searching and money. So the following template is provided at no cost for any of those zero organisations seeking a zero harm advisor. Feel free to use the complementary template … [Read more...] about Template – Zero Harm Advisor

Filed Under: Safety Professional, Safety Satire, Zero Harm

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