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 … [Read more...] about The Myth of the SWMS Manifesto
Work Method Statements
Things To Consider When Developing And Designing Your Company SWMS
Things To Consider When Developing And Designing Your Company SWMS Guest Post Download examples: The Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) is one important document that is valuable … [Read more...] about Things To Consider When Developing And Designing Your Company SWMS
Censorship and Taboos in Safety
Censorship and Taboos in Safety One of the interesting things we do in SPoR workshops is an audit of language, just a simple psychoanalysis of words associated with a key word. For example, ask any … [Read more...] about Censorship and Taboos in Safety
Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
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 … [Read more...] about Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
Work Method Statement Development Guide
Oh dear……. this guide may excite some safety people and have given the developers a warm fuzzy feeling but it’s missing some crucial components – can you tell me what they are? Download the Guide … [Read more...] about Work Method Statement Development Guide
Safety’s for sale and so is toilet paper!
It hit the fan when Gab Carlton published Where To Put the Port-a-loo is a Hazard!. I wonder if there will be the same gut reaction to Keith McCabe’s latest post on LinkedIn Pulse or do “Toilet … [Read more...] about Safety’s for sale and so is toilet paper!
Swimming Up Stream and the SWMS Dilemma
Refer also to: The Arse-Covering Myth Swimming Up Stream and the Safe Work Method Statement Dilemma I was with an organisation this week that was being inspected by the regulator. The … [Read more...] about Swimming Up Stream and the SWMS Dilemma
The Seduction to Simplify Safety
The Seduction to Simplify Safe Work Method Statements Everyone knows that we are already in an age of excess in safety. This is the dilemma of optimisation. Some now talk about ‘ultra-safety’ … [Read more...] about The Seduction to Simplify Safety
