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20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Risk Decision Making

May 26, 2022 by Admin 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Bias, Investigation, Risk Assessment, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: bias, cognitive bias, decision making

Risk assessment tips

April 27, 2022 by George Robotham Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: George Robotham, Risk Assessment Tagged With: risk assessement, Safety Reflections

Comparing Types of Risk Assessment

January 28, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

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

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long Tagged With: risk assessement, templates

The Myth of the SWMS Manifesto

October 16, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long, Safety Myths, Work Method Statements Tagged With: papersafe, paperwork, swms

Bow-Tie BS

August 23, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

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

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long Tagged With: behaviourism, Bow-Tie

An Engineering Dreamworld

November 21, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Dreamworld, engineering, groupspace

Quantifying the Unquantifiable

December 13, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

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

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Robert Long, Safety Statistics, STEM Tagged With: measurement, risk matrix

In Defence of Risk Heat Maps

January 20, 2019 by Admin 6 Comments

This one certainly caught out the Safety Crusaders who proved they don't read much past the headline. Those who understand risk will have a little chuckle.  Written by David Vose and first published here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/defence-risk-heat-maps-david-vose/  In Defence of Risk Heat … [Read more...] about In Defence of Risk Heat Maps

Filed Under: Risk Assessment Tagged With: heatmap, risk assessment, risk matrix, sparkline

7 Incredible Ways To Diagnose Risk More Effectively

November 19, 2016 by Admin Leave a Comment

7 Incredible Ways To Diagnose Risk More Effectively Does taking 2 hours out of a persons day to complete safety paperwork make their job more unsafe by causing them to rush or possibly make them too overconfident and not entertain doubt or risk? Absolutely! Can Engineering or Law really figure out … [Read more...] about 7 Incredible Ways To Diagnose Risk More Effectively

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: risk intelligence

Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk Imagination

October 15, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 32 Comments

Republished by Request My favourite line: “Finally, we could spend a bit more time with our little kids and start practicing a way of thinking we have devalued for far too long and bring some fun back into making sense of risk.” Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk … [Read more...] about Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk Imagination

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long Tagged With: checklists, incidents, risk, Safety Culture, safety slogan

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