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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

Courting Infallibility in Safety

December 30, 2022 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

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: Resiliencing, 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

ALARP, The Regulator and Alt-Facts

February 21, 2017 by Admin 14 Comments

ALARP, The Regulator and Alt-Facts Post by Hayden Collins, First published here Don’t you just love ‘fact sheets’? Especially when they don’t contain ‘facts’. (Sound like something you may have heard recently?) I recently picked up a ‘fact sheet’ from the NSW Department of Industry on ‘Mine … [Read more...] about ALARP, The Regulator and Alt-Facts

Filed Under: ALARP, Safety Legislation Tagged With: ALARP

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