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August 3, 2019August 3, 2019

What is a Safety Reset?

After four fatalities in a short period of time in the ACT in 2011 the regulator launched an inquiry into safety into the building and construction industry. This resulted in the Getting Them Home Safely Report in which I made… Read the rest

July 22, 2019August 3, 2019

The Compliance Conundrum

The challenge of compliance is also a challenge to critical thinking, this is one of the many paradoxes in risk and safety. When we comply or an organization seeks compliance this is all well and good only while things… Read the rest

November 15, 2018July 26, 2019

In Coal Blood

In coal blood Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable Simone de Beauvoir 1 The Queensland parliament select committee report into the resurgence of black lung provides an anatomy of yet another disaster in Australia’s… Read the rest

April 27, 2018August 31, 2018

Too much Cash and no panache

Too much Cash and no panache by Bernard Corden Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees Jean-Paul Sartre On 30th December 1969, following the Farmington mining disaster and threat of a nationwide strike the incumbent… Read the rest

July 22, 2017June 23, 2018

Much ado about nothing? Section 44 of the WA Mines Safety & Inspection Act

Much ado about nothing? Section 44 of the WA Mines Safety & Inspection Act Article by Greg Smith first published HERE For a long time now I have been concerned about how section 44 of the Mines Safety & Inspection… Read the rest