Talking Risk Videos–Thinking Groups In this next video from Gab and Rob's 'Conversations on the Couch' series, the guys talk about Thinking Groups. Rob talked about Thinking Groups in one of his blogs to give an understanding about what they are and what they are about. Here they expand on that a … [Read more...] about Talking Risk Videos–Thinking Groups
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Communicating and Consulting About Risk
Communicating and Consulting About Risk In this next video from Gab and Rob's 'Conversation on the Couch' series, the guys talk through a little known book that accompanies the Risk Management Standard. It's called Communicating and Consulting About Risk, HB327. You can get a copy here The … [Read more...] about Communicating and Consulting About Risk
Gab and Rob–One Brain, Three Minds
Gab and Rob Talking Risk – One Brain, Three Minds In this video, we introduce a model developed by Dr Robert Long from Human Dymensions called One Brain, Three Minds. This model helps explain how we make decisions using both the conscious and non-conscious parts of our brain. This video is a little … [Read more...] about Gab and Rob–One Brain, Three Minds
Does or Should Sex Sell Safety?
Does or Should Sex Sell Safety? (Or encourage people to read a blog article?) Certainly most agree that safety messages can be monotonous, boring and unappealing hence largely ignored, despite their important content (or otherwise). Airlines such as Virgin and Air New Zealand have made several … [Read more...] about Does or Should Sex Sell Safety?
Safety Gets Even Dumber
Safety Gets Even Dumber This has to be the dumbest and most condescending safety initiative I’ve seen since Dumb Ways to Die and Hazardman. So all “workers” are robotic clones and there are are only 2 kinds – “Risk Avoiders” and “Unsafe Risk Takers” (USRT’s). Apparently USRT existence has baffled … [Read more...] about Safety Gets Even Dumber
Gab & Rob Talking Risk
Gab & Rob Talking Risk Two of our cool authors Gab Carlton from Resilyence and Rob Sams from Dolphyn have put their heads together and started their own series of short video blogs to go along with their regular articles. Gab & Rob are part of the gang who are doing the post graduate … [Read more...] about Gab & Rob Talking Risk
Safety Can Be Sexy
Safety Can Be Sexy Ok – its the weekend again and time for some less serious safety stuff. As a public service, we have previously written a few articles about how sex and primal instinct can be used as an effective way to sell the safety message. We have treaded carefully so as to avoid offending … [Read more...] about Safety Can Be Sexy
Drones to make every workplace safe!
When this was sent to me I thought it was going to be about workers mindlessly following procedures or your typical safety inductions these days but he raises some interesting points about the use of this new technology for good and evil. I have seen parents filming their kids playing sport with … [Read more...] about Drones to make every workplace safe!
Banned OSHA Videos
Banned OSHA Videos These three big budget films were made by OSHA in 1980 during the Carter Administration. They were produced to provide a quick but damning history of OHS in the U.S. from the Industrial Revolution to the 1970s. Then in 1981, the incoming head of OSHA Thorne Auchter recalled … [Read more...] about Banned OSHA Videos
What Safety Means to Me
Why Safety Is Important to Me Been lots of heated discussions and chest beating and on this site and Safety Forums lately which is really healthy but I thought that, just for a moment, we should all step back, take a deep breath, let the dust settle and take a moment to reconsider what safety is … [Read more...] about What Safety Means to Me