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You Don’t Want a Compliance Culture

August 3, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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I often get asked if I teach programs on compliance and I say no, I teach about learning cultures. The last thing organisations need is a compliance culture. Compliance is most associated with adhering to standards or some regulatory requirement. Often compliance is associated with meeting minimal … [Read more...] about You Don’t Want a Compliance Culture

Filed Under: Compliance, Robert Long, Safety Legislation, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: compliance, safety compliance

OHS Compliance Puts Lives in Danger

June 16, 2022 by Admin 2 Comments

OHS Compliance Puts Lives in Danger Further reading: Knowing When to Break the Rules Image Source 9 News reports that a Government Department admitted during the New South Wales flood inquiry that life-saving help was withheld due to health and safety regulations. Government authorities … [Read more...] about OHS Compliance Puts Lives in Danger

Filed Under: Compliance Tagged With: flood, rules

Safety and Compliance

May 1, 2020 by Dave Whitefield 3 Comments

Safety and compliance are not the same thing, but are often thought of that way on the front line. Safety and Compliance from Dave Whitefield on Vimeo. … [Read more...] about Safety and Compliance

Filed Under: Compliance Tagged With: compliance

The Safety Control Delusion

February 22, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

The Safety Control Delusion One of the profound realizations of parenting is that you cannot control your own children. One of the stark realizations of marriage is that you cannot control your partner. Yet, here is Safety pushing all this delusional nonsense about ‘controlling’ others. There is a … [Read more...] about The Safety Control Delusion

Filed Under: Compliance, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: control, delusion, neurophysiology

Fear and Trembling of the Federal Safety Commission (OFSC)

December 10, 2018 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

Fear and Trembling of the Federal Safety Commission (OFSC) It doesn’t matter where I go in the Building and Construction industry there is fear and trembling about an OFSC Audit. The fear and trembling is not about undertaking an audit but about the excessive and petty nature of what the OFSC … [Read more...] about Fear and Trembling of the Federal Safety Commission (OFSC)

Filed Under: Compliance, Construction Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: audit, OFSC

The Language of Priorities

December 6, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Language of Priorities I spoke to a Safety Manager in a construction company recently who comes from one of these ‘safety is our number one priority’ organisations. He told me the reality was that: ‘concrete is our number one priority’. All semiotics have a profound affect on the human … [Read more...] about The Language of Priorities

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Compliance, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: priorities, propaganda, safety is number one priority

Comply

September 11, 2018 by James Parkinson Leave a Comment

Comply I have been involved with safety in Australia for the past 10 years. In that period I would like to think I have grown and learned, or would it be better to say tried, to understand what drives and motivates people to do certain things. I’ve heard on several different job sites I have been … [Read more...] about Comply

Filed Under: Compliance Tagged With: compliance, golden safety rules

Compliance is Never JUST Compliance

March 5, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Compliance is Never JUST Compliance If you want to get risk and safety people excited in a frenzy just write against compliance. Since writing about compliance two days ago (https://safetyrisk.net/you-dont-want-a-compliance-culture/) I have been swamped with responses. What is this fixation with … [Read more...] about Compliance is Never JUST Compliance

Filed Under: CLLR, Compliance, Just Culture, Robert Long Tagged With: compliance

Risk and Safety Starts with Being?

February 6, 2017 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

********If you are interested in knowing more about the Social Psychology of Risk then a one-off workshop is available this week in Sydney: http://cllr.com.au/product/an-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk-unit-1/****** Risk and Safety Starts with Being? The key to sensemaking is not the … [Read more...] about Risk and Safety Starts with Being?

Filed Under: Compliance, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: cognitive dissonance

Fall Harness–The Latest Dumb Safety Photo To Go Viral

September 17, 2016 by Admin 1 Comment

Truck Fall Harness–The Latest Dumb Safety Photo To Go Viral This the latest “safety fail” photo currently going viral on social media. A guy unloading a table-top truck, decked out head-to-toe in all the PPE imaginable including a fall arrest harness which obviously isn't going to work very … [Read more...] about Fall Harness–The Latest Dumb Safety Photo To Go Viral

Filed Under: Compliance, PPE, Risk Homeostasis, Safety Photos, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: dumb down safety, ppe, risk homeostasis, safety photos

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