Introduction Neuroscience research has revealed that our brains account for approximately two percent of our body weight, but consume about fifteen percent of our cardiac output, twenty percent of our total body oxygen and approximately twenty-five percent of our blood sugar. They are built up of … [Read more...] about Counter Intuitive Safety
Risk Assessment
How to Do the Best Risk Assessment
A risk assessment is a form of strategic planning and strategy methodology. The process attempts to think about the future by reflecting on the past. Most strategies are built upon specific beliefs about the future unfortunately, the future is unpredictable. The worst risk assessment is the one that … [Read more...] about How to Do the Best Risk Assessment
How to Test Your Risk IQ
How to Test Your Risk Intelligence Quotient Related articles: What is Your Risk iCue? Are You Risk Intelligent? Risk Intelligence and the Quest to Dumb Down Safety Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making Thanks to Hayden Collins (author of How is the unconscious in … [Read more...] about How to Test Your Risk IQ
20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Risk Decision Making
20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Risk Decision Making Republished by request Thanks to Rob Long for sharing this – originally published here on Business Insider. Ever wondered why your decisions, risk assessments and incident investigations are not as objective as you may think? Rob Long defines … [Read more...] about 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Risk Decision Making
Risk assessment tips
George’s Safety Reflections Risk assessment tips The risk management process consists of hazard identification, risk assessment and hazard control. Some people tend to get fixated on the risk assessment part and do not place enough emphasis on hazard control. Personally I find Haddon’s 10 … [Read more...] about Risk assessment tips
Comparing Types of Risk Assessment
Comparing Types of Risk Assessment When it comes to risk assessment all templates look the same, as much a Safety loves templates, there is no value at all in duplicating someone else’s designed template. The copying of templates affirms the ideology of the designer, cannot be ‘owned’ and cannot … [Read more...] about Comparing Types of Risk Assessment
The Myth of the SWMS Manifesto
The Myth of the SWMS Manifesto I’d like a dollar for every mail I get telling stories about what is considered necessary in a Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS). It seems that Safety is far more attentive to safety mythology (something that is made symbolically true, that isn’t) than what is … [Read more...] about The Myth of the SWMS Manifesto
Bow-Tie BS
Bow-Tie BS The Bow-Tie has been celebrated for years in risk and safety as if it is a good model for risk analysis. Nothing could be further from reality. I couldn’t think of a worse model for understanding risk, causality or the emergence of events. The BowTie was developed out of the chemistry … [Read more...] about Bow-Tie BS
An Engineering Dreamworld
How strange that when something goes wrong Safety flocks to Engineering for its reasoning. Even though Engineering has been deleted from safety association titles, it remains the raison d'être for safety. We observe this in the Coronial Enquiry into the Dreamworld Tragedy. The 274-page Dreamworld … [Read more...] about An Engineering Dreamworld
Quantifying the Unquantifiable
In every workshop I conduct the issue of measures, a STEM view of evidence and ‘controls’ are always raised. This week was no exception. I find it so amusing that the industry has this fixation with measures in working life and the opposite in our private life. Yet: The most important things in … [Read more...] about Quantifying the Unquantifiable
