Sanctimony Doesn’t Suit You: The High Moral Ground and Safety Latest exclusive By Phil La Duke – We publish Phil’s other provocative articles HERE. and I highly recommend his blog: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/. “maybe if we stopped distancing ourselves from Operations we can actually get … [Read more...] about Sanctimony Doesn’t Suit You: The High Moral Ground and Safety
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Crying Over Spilt Milk; Mistakes Are Inevitable, Injuries Are Not
Crying Over Spilt Milk; Mistakes Are Inevitable, Injuries Are Not Adding another dimension to the ZERO HARM debate – recent article by Phil LaDuke – ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED HERE People make mistakes; it’s what makes us human. The propensity for human error is practically embedded in our … [Read more...] about Crying Over Spilt Milk; Mistakes Are Inevitable, Injuries Are Not
Couple of Interesting Articles by Phil LaDuke
Couple of Interesting Recent Articles by Phil LaDuke 63.28% of All Statistics are Made Up – I found this and thought you might be interested. An industry has grown up around HW Heinrich's dubious research into the causes of injuries. His claim that 95% of all injuries have a behavioural … [Read more...] about Couple of Interesting Articles by Phil LaDuke
Blind Leading the Blind
Blind Leading The Blind Latest article by Phil LaDuke So many studies have proven that eyewitness testimony is inaccurate. What does this say about incident investigations? In this week's post on the Rockford Greene International blog I explore the how’s and whys of incident investigation. I would … [Read more...] about Blind Leading the Blind
Are We Blundering Our Way Through Safety
Are We Blundering Our Way Through Safety? Some of the most series cognitive traps are evident in how the safety industry has evolved. In this week's post I explore how Zachary Shore's seven cognitive traps have shaped and continue to shape how the Safety function has gone off the rails. I hope you … [Read more...] about Are We Blundering Our Way Through Safety
Screw Ups: Errors Are Inevitable
Screw Ups: Errors Are Inevitable By Phil La Duke. See it here: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/screw-ups-errors-are-inevitable/ “It’s an imperfect world”, “To err is human”, “That’s why we put erasers on pencils”. When it comes to screwing up, choose your idiom. We as a global … [Read more...] about Screw Ups: Errors Are Inevitable
More Great Stuff from Phil LaDuke
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ERGONOMIST By Phil La Duke Utility Player: How human factors engineering is used to find the perfect balance of the concurrent priorities between manual labor productivity and worker health and safety. One of the fastest growing roles in the field of safety is the … [Read more...] about More Great Stuff from Phil LaDuke
Six Attitudes that Can Get You Killed
Six Attitudes that Can Get You Killed By Phil La Duke – originally posted HERE We talk a lot about behaviours in safety—whether you’re a proponent of Behavior Based Safety (BBS) or Just Culture how workers behave is of paramount concern to safety professionals. But what about worker … [Read more...] about Six Attitudes that Can Get You Killed
What Are The Alternatives to Behavior Based Safety
Recent post by Phil La Duke, long time opponent of the flawed BBS process. read more of Phil’s work HERE What Are The Alternatives to Behaviour Based Safety Last week I posted yet another criticism of Behavior Based Safety (BBS) and it drew the following comment “Good morning Phil I hope … [Read more...] about What Are The Alternatives to Behavior Based Safety
Latest Articles by Phil LaDuke
Is BBS just BS? I know of a growing number of people who are increasingly disenchanted with BBS but they openly tell me that they will not publicly criticize it because of the fanatics who shout down all other opinions or research that does not support their world view. In my writing, I admit that … [Read more...] about Latest Articles by Phil LaDuke