Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
The problem with blind compliance is that it makes people co-dependent on systems designed off the job, in abstract formulation, according some other person’s interpretation of risk that sits in a cupboard and is out of date by the time the drawer of the … Learn more >>>>>
Everybody knows the boat is leaking, everybody knows that the captain lied
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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 and amendments to current legislation … 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. I do not propose to … 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 change and adaptability is required … 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 >>>>>
