Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
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
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
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
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 … Read the rest
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
