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Safety Culture

When Safety Culture is Toxic

March 2, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Most times when the call or email comes in, it is often too late in the life of the organisation for a mild review. Furthermore, many of these organisations have tried all the same old stuff, same old management ideology, same old slogans, some old silver bullets, same old slick marketing and still … [Read more...] about When Safety Culture is Toxic

Filed Under: Safety Culture Tagged With: toxic culture

Ten Virtues for a Positive Safety Culture

February 25, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Care Ethics gets no mention in the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, a sure sign that it was written by an amateur. Similarly, this unprofessional Chapter makes no mention of other critical elements of safety culture eg. Power and Zero, a truly amateurish work. There is also no map to help one understand … [Read more...] about Ten Virtues for a Positive Safety Culture

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: virtues

Culture and Subculture, Which is Safety?

January 22, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 25 Comments

Culture and Subculture, Which is Safety? The SIA BoK chapter on Organisational Culture came out this week. I read with interest that there was no intentional discussion of subcultures in the paper. Of course with so much sunk cost the club will surround the wagons and defend, that’s what it does. … [Read more...] about Culture and Subculture, Which is Safety?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Semiotics, Wicked Problems Tagged With: body of knowledge, safety culture, sia, subculture

Nonsense Curves and Pyramids

January 22, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 15 Comments

Nonsense Curves and Pyramids Safety likes nothing more than curves and pyramids, nothing so exciting as parading out the Bradley Curve or Heinrich’s Pyramid to get the troops excited about failure and loss. The Bradley Curve was created by DuPont in 1995 to try and benchmark notions of culture and … [Read more...] about Nonsense Curves and Pyramids

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: Bradley Curve, duPont, Heinrich’s pyramid, heuristics, pyramids, taleb

Selling Safety and the Safety of Selling Safety Culture

January 19, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The clue to marketing safety seems to be stating what something is by what it isn’t. For example, create a document selling company and call it SafetyCulture. SafetyCulture is the name of a company but it has nothing to do with safety culture. And it markets so well, as we see its branding at the … [Read more...] about Selling Safety and the Safety of Selling Safety Culture

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: SafetyCulture

Making Sure There is No ‘Cultural Shift’ in Safety

January 14, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

In the latest instalment of Safety stating what is by what isn’t, we have this from NZ Worksafe  (https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/about-us/news-and-media/ecostore-commits-323k-to-cultural-shift-in-safety/). When you read this article it becomes obvious, that this has nothing to do with … [Read more...] about Making Sure There is No ‘Cultural Shift’ in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: cultural shift

Jerry won the safety award (but he didn’t do anything!)

December 15, 2024 by Rob Sams 5 Comments

Jerry won the safety award (but he didn’t do anything!) I was at a family gathering recently and got talking to Jerry who I hadn’t spoken with for a while. We chatted about our work and he asked whether I was still in ‘safety’. I said no, that’s not what I do anymore: (I’m Not that into Safety … [Read more...] about Jerry won the safety award (but he didn’t do anything!)

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Rob Sams, Safe Behaviours, Safety Culture, Safety Statistics Tagged With: incentives, rewards, Safety, safety awards, Safety Incentives

More Nonsense from the EHS Insight – Zero Injury Cultures???

December 8, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

In the long tradition of speaking nonsense to people (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-experts-in-speaking-nonsense-to-people/) we have a recent publication by EHS Insight (https://www.ehsinsight.com/safety-maturity-assessment-and-model). Of course, one thing you can sure of, when safety says it has an … [Read more...] about More Nonsense from the EHS Insight – Zero Injury Cultures???

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk

The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth

November 26, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth is a new miniseries (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31251016/) currently screening on the ABC and iView (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/space-shuttle-that-fell-to-earth ). The Columbia mission was the second space shuttle disaster after the Challenger disaster, … [Read more...] about The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: space shuttle

When You Don’t Know What Culture Is. How Can you Improve It?  

November 23, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the new myths invented by Safety is that psychosocial health is about ‘controlling hazards’. Only Safety could warp reality in such a way. Now we have an industry that thinks it is addressing an issue by actually making it worse (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-psychosocial-safety/ ). Moreso, … [Read more...] about When You Don’t Know What Culture Is. How Can you Improve It?  

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: culture

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