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Safety Checklists

Yes, It’s A Checklist

April 21, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Yes, It’s A Checklist So April 28 is 2021 World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers’ Memorial Day . What would be a good symbol/semiotic to capture the meaning of this day? What would be a beaut poster that could be offered to link safety to the grief and loss of losing a loved one at … [Read more...] about Yes, It’s A Checklist

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists, Semiotics Tagged With: checklists, workers memorial day, world safety day

Checklisting

December 6, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

One of the mythologies created by the safety industry concerns the effectiveness of checklists. Yes, checklists are useful and helpful. The Checklist Manifesto by Gawande is a reasonable read on the positives and negatives of checklists and can be downloaded here: … [Read more...] about Checklisting

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists Tagged With: checklists, iCue

The Template Trap and Paper Safety

November 27, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Safety is a printing business not a risk management business. As long as you have put the right paperwork in place and completed it the right way (usability mapping - https://safetyrisk.net/paperwork-and-usability-in-tackling-risk/ ) then all is well. How delightful to find the right template, fill … [Read more...] about The Template Trap and Paper Safety

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Safety Checklists Tagged With: paper safe

Envisioning and Creativity in Safety

October 13, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Envisioning and Creativity in Safety There are several key factors in the safety industry that mitigate against envisioning and creativity, both are essential for a sense of vision. These are: · The work of compliance creates compliance thinking · Checklisting creates checklist thinking · … [Read more...] about Envisioning and Creativity in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists, Social Psychology of Risk, Vision Zero Tagged With: checklists, creativity in safety

Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists

July 24, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

A checklist for checking your use of checklists :-) Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists See also: Making Objects Safe or People Safe (Dr Rob Long), Risk is About People, not just Objects (Rob Sams) Whilst value of checklists is well documented by Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto) and others, … [Read more...] about Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists, Work Method Statements Tagged With: desensitisation, safety checklists, swms

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