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Safety values, ideas, behaviours and clothes

July 11, 2021 by Simon Cassin 11 Comments

Safety values, ideas, behaviours and clothes Safety values, thoughts, ideas and behaviours are a bit like clothes; we all have them, but knowing which to wear, recycle, or ditch is often a challenging decision. After what has been a tough period for many, now might be the perfect time to open … [Read more...] about Safety values, ideas, behaviours and clothes

Filed Under: PPE, Safety Professional Tagged With: behaviour, values

Essential Preparation for a Safety Job

June 2, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Essential Preparation for a Safety Job Most of what makes up the WHS curriculum doesn’t prepare someone for undertaking the job of safety advisor. Training a parrot to recall legislation and regulation is pretty meaningless, when a lawyer will be called in when something goes wrong. When it comes … [Read more...] about Essential Preparation for a Safety Job

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS Body of Knowledge, safety curriculum, Safety Jobs, safety models

What You Profess in Safety

February 9, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

What You Profess in Safety There is no separation between claiming the word ‘professional’ and what you profess. What one professes determines if one is profess-ional regardless of whether one likes to claim the word as a brand or not (https://safetyrisk.net/not-a-professions-bootlace/ ). … [Read more...] about What You Profess in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: language, paperwork

Data Cannot Drive Professionalism

December 14, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Data Cannot Drive Professionalism Being professional is determined by an ethic not by labels, brands or spin. We know someone is professional by what they do not what marketing they employ. If someone brutalizes others, treats them like numbers (https://safetyrisk.net/data-cannot-drive-vision/), … [Read more...] about Data Cannot Drive Professionalism

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: code of ethics, data

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

Diagnosing Safety

February 3, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

Recently, a large International company requested that I design a diagnostic to assess HSE competence including knowledge and skills associated with HSE and Social Psychology (SPoR). It was an interesting request because I was Project Officer in 1995 to the National Key Competencies experiments in … [Read more...] about Diagnosing Safety

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: diagnostic, HSE competence, SPoR

The NSCA Foundation

August 16, 2019 by Admin 8 Comments

I had a good chat today with Jamie Burrage, CEO of NSCA Foundation. Readers of this blog may have gathered that we aren’t big fans of very many Safety Organisations. However, I was impressed by the vision Jamie has for the NSCA Foundation and I encourage you to check out their website and learn a … [Read more...] about The NSCA Foundation

Filed Under: Safety Professional Tagged With: nsca, NSCA Foundation

A Question of Ethics

February 3, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

A Question of Ethics An ethic is a moral system. When one declares an ethical position, one is making a statement about how a moral position is systematized. The fact that Safety pays little attention to ethics, doesn’t study ethics in its curriculum and confuses moral and ethical definition is an … [Read more...] about A Question of Ethics

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: ethics, george pell

How Many Safety People Know What Schadenfreude Means?

December 3, 2018 by Admin 7 Comments

How Many Safety People Know What Schadenfreude Means? From the Oxford Dictionary: NOUN Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. ‘a business that thrives on Schadenfreude’ ‘a frisson of Schadenfreude’ Origin: German Schadenfreude, from Schaden ‘harm’ + Freude … [Read more...] about How Many Safety People Know What Schadenfreude Means?

Filed Under: Safety Professional Tagged With: safety videos, Schadenfreude

Bedwetters Anonymous

September 25, 2018 by Bernard Corden Leave a Comment

Bedwetters Anonymous All professions are conspiracies against the laity George Bernard Shaw 1 The recent resources boom across Australasia involved construction of major gas projects throughout Queensland, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea. This created an unprecedented … [Read more...] about Bedwetters Anonymous

Filed Under: Safety Professional Tagged With: nsca, sia, worksafe

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