What It Takes To Be An Excellent OHS Professional Classic post by the late George Robotham Geoff McDonald Australian safety researcher Geoff McDonald has been my advisor/coach/mentor /guide in my safety career. Geoff McDonald has a system of classifying personal damage occurrences (“Accidents … [Read more...] about What It Takes To Be An Excellent OHS Professional
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Ageing workforce
Ageing workforce Guest Post By the late George Robotham I am 58 and have worked in OHS for 38 years. I have had a variety of OHS roles and have a rich portfolio of OHS experience to fall back on. I am no expert and still have a lot to learn in the field, fortunately I am a lifelong learner and I … [Read more...] about Ageing workforce
Critical Safety Reflection or thinking about stuff
Critical Safety Reflection or thinking about stuff By the late George Robotham This brief article was prompted by an excellent paper in the Central Alberta Well Services Corporation, Safety Newsletter, Vol2, Issue 6 by Mark Sanborn, www.marksanborn.com titled “Think like a leader and lead like a … [Read more...] about Critical Safety Reflection or thinking about stuff
Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
Free Ebook Effective Safety Management Systems Last in the Series By the late George Robotham - sadly George passed away suddenly in Sept 2013 - please enjoy his incredible legacy. George’s 7th (and last Ebook) Effective Safety Management Systems Download The Ebook Here See details of George’s … [Read more...] about Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
Lessons I Have Learnt about Management, Safety, Life and People It gives me great pleasure to offer the 4th Free EBook in the series by the late George Robotham. If you missed the first 3 they were: George’s first FREE EBook: Guidance for the beginning OHS professional George’s second FREE EBook: … [Read more...] about Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
Response to complaints
A quick list of responses to a complaint which you may find useful. It was assembled, mostly in jest, by a little group of my esteemed recalcitrant colleagues, actually, mostly the late great George Robotham. Don't read on if you are easily offended. Happy for you to contribute your suggestions in … [Read more...] about Response to complaints
Weasel Words in Safety
Weasel Words in Safety – Words that promise much but deliver little One of my favourites by the late George Robotham Those of you who read my posts will know I am a big critic of the long, ponderous written communications, that seems to infect the safety world. Given a choice many people take a … [Read more...] about Weasel Words in Safety
Another Free Safety Ebook
Another Free Safety Ebook – “Learning How to Facilitate Learning” The late George Robotham's 6th Ebook: Learning to Facilitate Learning. Download this Ebook Here Learning How to Facilitate Learning By George Robotham Facilitating learning has been an important part of my professional … [Read more...] about Another Free Safety Ebook
What it means to be an OHS professional
What it means to be an OHS professional The late George Robotham’s very popular, 100 page, FREE E-BOOK – download his others here ABSTRACT and TABLE of CONTENTS CAN BE FOUND AFTER THE IMAGE BELOW. ESSENTIAL READING FOR THOSE STARTING OUT AND SEASONED VETERANS! If you want a good chuckle then you … [Read more...] about What it means to be an OHS professional
Quirky Things That Work When Trying To Help Others
Quirky things that work when trying to help others With the current safety theme trending toward HELPING (see Safety as a Helping Profession and I was just trying to help), I thought it timely to republish this post by the late George Robotham who wrote this a few years ago with some input … [Read more...] about Quirky Things That Work When Trying To Help Others