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What to Say Instead Of Be Careful

September 3, 2018 by Dave Collins Leave a Comment

What to Say Instead Of Be Careful Not often you find gems on Linkedin (see poster below) and this is juxtaposed lately with posts about 10 Golden Rules and “who’s to blame” videos. Most legislation requires consultation with the work force and those actually exposed to the risks – many seem to think this means […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry Tagged With: Take 5, thinking

Is Safety “a few tools short of a toolbox”?

June 9, 2018 by Dave Collins Leave a Comment

Is Safety “a few tools short of a toolbox”? Guest post by one of the USA based students in The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR) online program https://cllr.com.au/online-courses-overseas-students/ Collective mindfulness is an acceptance of equivocality; understanding that all possible outcomes cannot be known and that the environment is continually changing (a concept […]

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Filed Under: CLLR, Humble Inquiry, Toolbox Talks Tagged With: collective mindfulness, Toolbox Talks

Do we Need a Different Way of Being in Safety?

May 28, 2018 by Rob Sams Leave a Comment

Do we Need a Different Way of Being in Safety? There are many people working in Safety who seek a ‘different’ way of engaging with others, and rightly so. The current policing and patrolling approaches adopted by many, seem to be doing little to support people in how they tackle the challenges of risk. Some […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Rob Sams, Safety Differently, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: humble enquiry, safety differently

Making Technicians Not Helpers

January 26, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Making Technicians Not Helpers People have enrolled in the CLLR Certificate online and in face-to-face studies (https://cllr.com.au/register-to-study/) recently, many with graduate and post-graduate qualifications in Safety. Near all, without exception, are looking for the skills and knowledge that is excluded from most safety training and qualifications. Near all report that their qualification has been primarily […]

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Filed Under: CLLR, Humble Inquiry, Robert Long, Safety systems, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: helping, technical skills

Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know

May 10, 2017 by Dave Collins 48 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Risk Homeostasis, Semiotics, Workplace Safety Tagged With: Safety, Zero Harm

Top 10 Simple Things You Can Do To Dramatically Improve Safety

April 18, 2017 by Dave Collins Leave a Comment

 Top 10 Simple Things You Can Do To Dramatically Improve Safety (you will probably not find many of these in text books or regulations) The most common feedback I get on this blog is something like: “all this theory is great but what can I do to apply it”. I know Safety loves simplicity and […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Safety Leadership, Semiotics, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: improve safety

Safety Leadership: Enabler, Excuse or Doing Harm?

March 2, 2017 by Dave Collins 1 Comment

Latest must read by WHS Lawyer Greg Smith – first published here Safety Leadership: Enabler, Excuse or Doing Harm? I do not think that there is any serious view suggesting that “leadership” is not an important, if not the most important driver of safety performance.  One of the main findings from a 2002 review of […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Safety Leadership Tagged With: safety leadership

The Fear of Power and the Power of Fear

December 20, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

The Fear of Power and the Power of Fear One of the clear messages in the Netflix series House of Cards is the Fear of Power and the Power of Fear. The House of Cards series exemplifies what happens when one makes power the frame for exchange. The idea that coercion, compliance, power and fear […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: fear, power

My First Safety Lessons

November 24, 2016 by Ken Roberts 6 Comments

My First Safety Lessons Guest post by Ken Roberts – HSE Specialist – LinkedIn Profile: Ken R. Roberts Things were different in Western Australia in 1981. We hadn’t won the America’s Cup, BHP didn’t have a ‘B’ on the end of it and mining hadn’t adopted the idea of Safety as it does today. In […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Safety Training Tagged With: safety lesson

You Should Actively Encourage Poor Safety in the Workplace

November 16, 2016 by Dave Collins 17 Comments

I was asked recently for something different that could be done for a safety awareness session. I referred the person to this article from about 5  years ago – they tried it and apparently it worked brilliantly! What do you reckon? When it was first published many years ago (I cringe at some of the […]

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Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Positive Safety Stuff, Safety Culture, Safety Procedures Tagged With: bad idea, change laws, creativity, guidance, hierarchy of control, legislative requirements, motor cars, productivity, Safety Committee, safety culture, safety meetings, stupid ideas, supervisor, time and money, unsafe acts, workplaces

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