Risk Leadership The first thing one must do when discussing leadership and risk is to define terms. It is amazing how many people throw words and language about in the safety industry based on the naïve assumption of ‘common sense’ or assumed understanding. This is most pronounced in discussion about culture, learning and leadership. Risk […]
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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 US president eventually capitulated. Although Richard Nixon declined to meet many of the inconsolable widows […]
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Transdisciplinary Safety
Transdisciplinary Safety In the latest issue of The Risk Magazine in the Future of Risk Edition (No. 3 March 2018, p.44) I argued that the future of risk must embrace transdisciplinarity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity ). It is interesting that the binary view that currently dominates safety even interprets this transdisciplinary call as an ‘either-or’ view. A transdisciplinary […]
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SIA has a Bet ‘Each Way’ on Zero
SIA has a Bet ‘Each Way’ on Zero Following in the wake of the Vision Zero spectacle at the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2017 the SIA decided to release a statement on Zero on 20 September 2017. The Statement is nothing short of simple spin-doctoring to ‘have a bet each […]
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Geoff McDonald–Awarded Order of Australia
Geoff McDonald – Awarded Order of Australia Long time readers of this blog will fondly remember the work of George Robotham who passed away suddenly in 2013, leaving behind an incredible legacy. Many of George’s articles (like this one) mention the extraordinary work of Geoff McDonald – George’s friend and mentor. Sadly, Geoff passed away […]
