The Corporate Plan and How $#it Happens Republished from a long time ago by request Everyone says that cultural change must start at the top. Does it?. Just found this classic old poem in the archives. Explains, better than I could, why corporate initiatives (like safety or cultural improvements) are not always best led from […]
Safety Poems
No Choice, No Say
No Choice, No Say One of the great loves of Dumb Down Safety is guilt, binary attribution and projection of deficit views of risk and safety. Unless the curriculum of WHS moves ahead in transdisciplinary way (https://safetyrisk.net/isnt-it-time-we-reformed-the-whs-curriculum/ ), it is not likely that much will change. There is no better example of the binary Safety […]
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Christmas Safety Poem
Christmas Safety Poem – A Hazardman Christmas Republished from last year – enjoy again: News from the UK and reported in the Daily Mail: Elf and safety forces Nativity procession Mary to ride on a donkey wearing HARD HAT Prompted Rob Long to write this Christmas Safety Poem – ENJOY! Imagine Source A Hazardman Christmas […]
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FIFO Life Poem
Introducing our latest Awesome Author Dionne (Drewie) Drew – The “Hard Hat Mentor”. Drewie has spent over 25 years working FIFO swings and wrote this poem recently when social media comments on almost every forum were so toxic and mean during a time when the FIFO suicides were all over the news: “When the inquiry […]
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FOR THE LOVE OF ZERO, THE SAFETY GOAL WAS LOST
FOR THE LOVE OF ZERO, THE SAFETY GOAL WAS LOST This was one of the entries, sent in by Cip Corva, for our recent “For The Love of Zero Contest”. I thought it was brilliant and worthy of its own post (if safety is zero harm then love is just zero hate – if you […]
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THE PLAN – HOW $#1T HAPPENS
THE PLAN – HOW $#1T HAPPENS Some excellent comments on the post: Think Outside The Safety Suggestion Box reminded me again of this piece of prose (seems like this has happened before). In his book “Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach”, Michael Aamodt suggests that when there is “serial communication” (where messages are passed from person to person) then […]
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A BROKEN CHRISTMAS
New and timely Safety Poem sent in by a reader: A BROKEN CHRISTMAS T’was the night before Christmas and now she’s all alone. Because her husband had an accident at work and didn’t come home. He was killed because he took a shortcut and of course he knew better. He knew the rules and […]
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That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It – The Calf Path
I’m a firm believer in finding creative (often cheaper and more effective) ways to solve ongoing problems. I love to quote this poem about creative thinking whenever I get: “that’s the way we’ve always done it” ENJOY! The Calf Path – Sam Walter Foss – 1895 One day through the primeval wood A calf walked […]
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We have always done it that way
We have always done it that way Safety Consultants often find themselves visiting a new site and asking “why do you do it that way”? The standard response is: “we’ve always done that way” That has been problem for many years CHECK OUT THIS POEM written in 1885! I once asked a manufacturing company why […]
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Prevention Better Than a Cure
Prevention Better Than a Cure Nice little safety poem as apt today as when it was written 120 years ago! An Ambulance Down in The Valley By Joseph Malins, 1895 ‘Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Though to walk near its edge was so pleasant; But over its terrible edge there had slipped […]
