Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Everybody knows the boat is leaking, everybody knows that the captain lied
Leonard Cohen 1
Following the Queensland parliamentary inquiry into black lung and its subsequent report a project management office was established to review the sweeping recommendations. This involved development of a revised framework … Learn more >>>>>
On 1 August 2019 an article was published about a health and safety prosecution in Western Australia, and it was another rallying cry against insufficient penalties following workplace fatalities. … Learn more >>>>>
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 stay the same. When things … Learn more >>>>>
I always find it fascinating when there is an increase in safety statistics or incidents that the call is always about greater vigilance, more checklists, more policing and more effort. What an amazing industry that still doesn’t know why things go wrong.
Rather than question the fundamental flaws in … Learn more >>>>>
History never says goodbye – It really means see you later
Eduardo Galeano
A Karl Marx essay, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon is the source of a renowned quote from many historians…….History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. It reflects and … Learn more >>>>>
