Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Top 10 Simple Things You Can Do To Dramatically Improve Safety – TODAY!You will probably not find many of these in text books or regulations Enjoy the rest of the article >>>>>
Do Safety Signs Cause More Harm Than Good? Safety slogans and safety signs still seem to be one of the most popular forms of communication in the workplace. Those two search terms bring more traffic to this blog than most others combined? There are many articles on this blog about slogans, signs and semiotics (I’ve […]
Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know Republished by request Here are 10 and a bit things about safety that I plucked from some recent blog posts, that singularly or collectively only a handful of people may know. Or, if they knew them, perhaps did not know […]
5 Environmental Dangers to Public Health Most people have some awareness of the fact that pollution and chemicals in the environment can affect their health. But the public is often unaware of just how dangerous and harmful environmental toxins can be, and just how widespread their influence is. A clinical research study by the University […]
Quick Guide to Auditing OHS Systems George’s Safety Reflections – by the late George Robotham There is some confusion in practice between the terms inspection and audit, I distinguish between the two by saying you inspect things and you audit systems. Organisations that are successful at Occupational Health and Safety have regular comprehensive internal […]
Making Language in Safety Meaningful Kakutani (The Death of Truth) helps us understand the power of confusion and doubt with the strategy of ‘fake news’ in the common era (https://www.amazon.com/Death-Truth-Notes-Falsehood-Trump/dp/0525574824 ). This was captured splendidly in the documentary Merchants of Doubt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqiCLuOtXts&pbjreload=10). Merchants of Doubt should be compulsory viewing for all safety people. One doesn’t […]
Work-Life and Risk, Feminine Perspectives Recently five women gathered together to talk about the Social Psychology of Risk and the world of work. The day was spent tackling some big questions on the nature of personhood, maturity, wisdom, discernment, discourse, power and risk. During the day of we decided to record one conversation in response […]
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