How Do You Interpret Safety? All safety is interpreted. There is no such thing as objective safety. The Act and Regulation are interpreted, just as are the Standards. Lawyers in safety know that precedent, case law and previous rulings give substance to the meaning of the Act, … [Read more...] about How Do You Interpret Safety?
Due Diligence
Why Zero Cannot Understand the Basics of Safety – ALARP and Due Diligence
Safety=Zero will never be able to understand the foundations and basics of the Work Health safety Act and Regulation. Two critical principles guide the Act and Regulation, these are: ALARP Due Diligence Both principles are anchored in subjectivity, adaptability, movement and … [Read more...] about Why Zero Cannot Understand the Basics of Safety – ALARP and Due Diligence
The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety
This is how Safety describes what it does. Here it is on full show. Come to Safety so you can have zero vision about risk. Do you want to count how many zero events safety has held recently. I guess a zero event means you had neither an event nor nothing to count? And anyone and … [Read more...] about The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety
Congruence in Messaging in Safety
Congruence in Messaging in Safety Study in Semiotics demonstrates that congruence in messaging improves communication, incongruence creates miss-messaging. In order for communication to be effective there needs to be congruence not just in text, language and discourse (power in language) but also … [Read more...] about Congruence in Messaging in Safety
200,000 SPoR Book Downloads
200,000 SPoR Book Downloads We’ve had a few milestones lately, first with the 1000th blog (https://safetyrisk.net/celebrating-1000-blogs-on-risk/ ) and now with over 200,000 book sales/downloads of Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). This is in addition to over 100,000 video downloads … [Read more...] about 200,000 SPoR Book Downloads
Bells and Whistles and Due Diligence
Bells and Whistles and Due Diligence The key to Due Diligence is demonstrating that your critical risks are being managed and that you can demonstrate ‘assurance’ that your methods to tackle risk ‘work’. It is amazing with all the ‘bells and whistles’ about that people lose sight of these … [Read more...] about Bells and Whistles and Due Diligence
The Template Trap and Paper Safety
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
Due Diligence Workshop
Due Diligence Workshop Due Diligence is not a product of legislation. Due diligence is a broad organisational and individual responsibility that existed as a legal principle long before Work Health and Safety legislation. Every major accident inquiry anywhere in the world for the past 30 years has … [Read more...] about Due Diligence Workshop
Marketing Safety and Due Diligence
Marketing Safety and Due Diligence I don’t get this constant need to make safety ‘sexy’. One of the videos that received an award at the recent Zero Vision World Congress in Safety is a typical example: If you want to see how unprofessional Safety is, just check out how unethical and desperate … [Read more...] about Marketing Safety and Due Diligence
The Futility of the Centralised Safety Management System?
Whenever I run the MiProfile diagnostic (https://www.humandymensions.com/services-and-programs/miprofile/) in organizations it always turns out that over 60% of people state that they do not understand the Safety Management System (SMS). With data from over 300 organizations and 60,000 participants … [Read more...] about The Futility of the Centralised Safety Management System?