• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

SafetyRisk.net

Humanising Health, Safety and Risk

  • Home
    • About
      • Privacy Policy
      • Contact
  • FREE
    • Slogans
      • Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time
      • When Slogans Don’t Work
      • CLASSIC, FAMOUS and INFAMOUS SAFETY QUOTES
      • 500 of THE MOST EFFECTIVE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2024
      • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
      • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
      • Safety Acronyms and Buzzwords
      • You know Where You Can Stick Your Safety Slogans
      • Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple
      • Spanish Safety Slogans – Consignas de seguridad
      • Safety Slogans List
      • Road Safety Slogans 2024
      • How to write your own safety slogans
      • Why Are Safety Slogans Important
      • Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
      • 40 Free Safety Slogans For the Workplace
      • Safety Slogans for Work
    • FREE SAFETY eBOOKS
    • Free Hotel and Resort Risk Management Checklist
    • FREE DOWNLOADS
    • TOP 50
    • FREE RISK ASSESSMENT FORMS
    • Find a Safety Consultant
    • Free Safety Program Documents
    • Psychology Of Safety
    • Safety Ideas That Work
    • HEALTH and SAFETY MANUALS
    • FREE SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENT RESOURCES
    • Whats New In Safety
    • FUN SAFETY STUFF
    • Health and Safety Training
    • SAFETY COURSES
    • Safety Training Needs Analysis and Matrix
    • Top 20 Safety Books
    • This Toaster Is Hot
    • Free Covid-19 Toolbox Talks
    • Download Page – Please Be Patient With Larger Files…….
    • SAFETY IMAGES, Photos, Unsafe Pictures and Funny Fails
    • How to Calculate TRIFR, LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators
    • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat
  • Social Psychology Of Risk
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Safety Psychology Terminology
    • Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk – Prof Karl E. Weick
    • The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
    • Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk
    • The Psychology of Conversion – 20 Tips to get Started
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety
    • Psychology and safety
    • The Psychology of Safety
    • Hot Toaster
    • TALKING RISK VIDEOS
    • WHAT IS SAFETY
    • THE HOT TOASTER
    • THE ZERO HARM DEBATE
    • SEMIOTICS
    • LEADERSHIP
  • Dr Long Posts
    • ALL POSTS
    • Learning Styles Matter
    • There is no Hierarchy of Controls
    • Scaffolding, Readiness and ZPD in Learning
    • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
    • Presentation Tips for Safety People
    • Dialogue Do’s and Don’ts
    • It’s Only a Symbol
    • Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
    • Zero is Unethical
    • First Report on Zero Survey
    • There is No Objectivity, Deal With it!
  • THEMES
    • Psychosocial Safety
    • Resilience
    • Risk Myths
    • Safety Myths
    • Safety Culture Silences
    • Safety Culture
    • Psychological Health and Safety
    • Zero Harm
    • Due Diligence
  • Free Learning
    • Introduction to SPoR – Free
    • FREE RISK and SAFETY EBOOKS
    • FREE ebook – Guidance for the beginning OHS professional
    • Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
    • Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
  • Psychosocial Safety
    • What is Psychosocial Safety
    • Psychological Safety
      • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
      • Managing psychosocial hazards at work
      • Psychological Safety – has it become the next Maslow’s hammer?
      • What is Psychosocial Safety
      • Psychological Safety Slogans and Quotes
      • What is Psychological Safety?
      • Understanding Psychological Terminology
      • Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
      • Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
      • It’s not weird – it’s a psychological safety initiative!

ALARP

Why Zero Cannot Understand the Basics of Safety – ALARP and Due Diligence

November 26, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Safety=Zero will never be able to understand the foundations and basics of the Work Health safety Act and Regulation. Two critical principles guide the Act and Regulation, these are: ALARP Due Diligence Both principles are anchored in subjectivity, adaptability, movement and … [Read more...] about Why Zero Cannot Understand the Basics of Safety – ALARP and Due Diligence

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: ALARP

Courting Infallibility in Safety

June 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Courting Infallibility in Safety One of the best questions one can ask of anyone spruiking zero is: please tell me what will happen tomorrow? Or perhaps next week? Of course they can’t, no one can. Such is the beauty of fallibility  Just imagine how dreadful life would be if we had insight … [Read more...] about Courting Infallibility in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: ALARP, fallibility, predictive analytics

The Ethic of ALARP and the Dilemma of Safety

March 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the great things about the Regulation and the Act is the subjectivity of ALARP and Due Diligence. Both account for the beauty of human fallibility and the adaptability needed in tackling risk. Of course, there is no policy, law, regulation or standard that is absent of a moral philosophy. … [Read more...] about The Ethic of ALARP and the Dilemma of Safety

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, ALARP

Due Diligence is NOT Quantitative

March 2, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

One of the grand delusions of approaches to Due Diligence is that it is a quantitative concept. Due Diligence is similar to ALARP and is a 100% qualitative idea that cannot be measured. Our successful Due Diligence program will be run in Perth 3,4,5 October … [Read more...] about Due Diligence is NOT Quantitative

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long Tagged With: ALARP

Psychosocial Controls and Measures for Who?

August 2, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The fixation and psychosis of the safety industry with ‘controls’ and ‘measures’ creates the delusion that psychosocial issues can be controlled and measured. When it comes to psychosocial issues, the last thing that helps is quantitative language and simplistic mythology. And the latest Worksafe … [Read more...] about Psychosocial Controls and Measures for Who?

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, ALARP, Psychological Safety, Psychosocial Controls, Stress, worksafe

Release the Safety Monster and Wreck a Good TV Show

July 23, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 8 Comments

There are calls by safety crusaders to have TV DIY Shows ensure they set a good safety example (compliance is the most commonly used word) – Dr Rob Long responds: Release the Safety Monster and Wreck a Good TV Show I'm not much of a fan of reality TV shows especially the home renovation type or … [Read more...] about Release the Safety Monster and Wreck a Good TV Show

Filed Under: ALARP, Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Safety News, Safety Videos Tagged With: ALARP, heuristics, risk makes sense, safety monster, tv show

All Risk is Subjective

June 16, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The latest research confirms what SPoR has known for sometime, that all vision is subjective, objective vision is impossible (https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-philosophy-lab-vision-impossible.html ), just as zero is impossible. Researchers at John Hopkins University found that it's impossible … [Read more...] about All Risk is Subjective

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: 5 whys, AIHS BoK on Ethics, ALARP, icam, risk, subjective

Leaps of Faith, Risk and Movement/Learning in Safety

May 23, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

One can’t live in the world without movement, stasis is death. In movement we live, learn and have our being, to do so defines the nature of risk. The purpose of living in the world is not to be safe, secure and eliminate risk. If we live and move with purpose seeking meaning in the world, we must … [Read more...] about Leaps of Faith, Risk and Movement/Learning in Safety

Filed Under: Risk Management, Robert Long Tagged With: ALARP, paper safe

When Safety is Beyond Your Control

January 4, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

For over a month we have been breathing carcinogenic smoke from bushfires in my home city of Canberra. Many other cities and towns are in a similar situation but Canberra (because of its geographical nature) is worst . The levels of hazardous smoke is 20 times an acceptable level. Even with an air … [Read more...] about When Safety is Beyond Your Control

Filed Under: Resilience, Robert Long Tagged With: ALARP, bushfire

ALARP/SFAIRP – One brain, three minds and satisficing

January 30, 2018 by Bernard Corden Leave a Comment

ALARP/SFAIRP – One brain, three minds and satisficing by Bernard Corden The following schematic may assist in explaining the objective and rational ALARP/SFAIRP approach and actual performance: ALARP/SFAIRP is an objective test but is unsurprisingly littered with enough subjective terminology … [Read more...] about ALARP/SFAIRP – One brain, three minds and satisficing

Filed Under: ALARP, Bernard Corden Tagged With: ALARP, one brain three minds, satisficing, SFAIRP

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Search and Discover More on this Site

RECOMMENDED READING

Never miss a post - Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,177 other subscribers.

FREE eBOOK DOWNLOADS

Recent Comments

  • Rob Long on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Admin on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Rob Long on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Admin on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Kieren Aubrey on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Rob Long on Safety is NOT a Duty
  • Rosa@carrilloconsultants.com on Safety is NOT a Duty
  • Rob Long on Is It That Hard to Ask?
  • Sherralynne Smith on Is It That Hard to Ask?
  • Rob Long on Is It That Hard to Ask?

viral post – iso 45003 and what it cannot do

Introduction to SPOR – FREE!!

NEW! Free Download

Please take our 2 minute zero survey