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How to Leave the Safety Industry

January 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Related Post: I'm Just Not That Into Safety Anymore I regularly get contacts from people who want to leave the safety industry and don’t know how. Most often these people enter the industry with a passion for care and helping others. They often have a passion for learning. It doesn’t take long … [Read more...] about How to Leave the Safety Industry

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter of Ethics, checklists

Objectivity, Audits and Attribution When Calculating Risk

January 10, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

So you reckon you can calculate risk to 3 decimal places?? Think again. A recent article by Dr Robert Long, that may make you rethink your belief in Risk Assessment as being objective!. If you liked this article then you should read the whole series:  Extract: Finally, we should be … [Read more...] about Objectivity, Audits and Attribution When Calculating Risk

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long Tagged With: audits, calculating risk, checklists, Risk Assessment Checklists, risk attribution, Risk Calculator, risk managers

What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?

December 30, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

These days I watch a lot of Playschool, a children’s TV program on ABCTV (https://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/sites/playschool/). Playschool is a pre-school education program based entirely on imagination and play. Everything about the show is basic - no fancy props, no expensive sets and adults … [Read more...] about What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?

Filed Under: Creativity, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: checklists, humble enquiry

So, You Want Culture Change?

November 12, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

So, You Want Culture Change? When one’s definition of culture is either systems, behaviours or values (or all three) the strategies (methods) that result reflect the definition. Changing values, systems and behaviours doesn’t change culture, it only affects these small elements of culture. One’s … [Read more...] about So, You Want Culture Change?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: checklists, transdisciplinary approach

Yes, It’s A Checklist

April 21, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Yes, It’s A Checklist So April 28 is 2021 World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers’ Memorial Day . What would be a good symbol/semiotic to capture the meaning of this day? What would be a beaut poster that could be offered to link safety to the grief and loss of losing a loved one at … [Read more...] about Yes, It’s A Checklist

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists, Semiotics Tagged With: checklists, workers memorial day, world safety day

Checklisting

December 6, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

One of the mythologies created by the safety industry concerns the effectiveness of checklists. Yes, checklists are useful and helpful. The Checklist Manifesto by Gawande is a reasonable read on the positives and negatives of checklists and can be downloaded here: … [Read more...] about Checklisting

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists Tagged With: checklists, iCue

Envisioning and Creativity in Safety

October 13, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Envisioning and Creativity in Safety There are several key factors in the safety industry that mitigate against envisioning and creativity, both are essential for a sense of vision. These are: The work of compliance creates compliance thinking Checklisting creates checklist thinking … [Read more...] about Envisioning and Creativity in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Checklists, Social Psychology of Risk, Vision Zero Tagged With: checklists, creativity in safety

Checklist Seduction and The Delusion of Data

April 10, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

We learned a few days ago just how much money can be made from a safety checklist. (Meet Australia's newest unicorn SafetyCulture and Billion dollar milestone: SafetyCulture Australia's newest unicorn ) If anyone ever doubted ‘the seduction of the box’ mentalitie in Safety … [Read more...] about Checklist Seduction and The Delusion of Data

Filed Under: Risk Assessment Templates, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: checklists

Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk Imagination

October 15, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 32 Comments

Republished by Request My favourite line: “Finally, we could spend a bit more time with our little kids and start practicing a way of thinking we have devalued for far too long and bring some fun back into making sense of risk.” Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk … [Read more...] about Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk Imagination

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long Tagged With: checklists, incidents, risk, Safety Culture, safety slogan

9 Great Reasons Why You Should Stop Doing Hazard Inspections

June 10, 2016 by Admin 9 Comments

9 Great Reasons Why You Should Stop Doing Hazards Inspections Rob Sam’s recent article: How I Feel About Risk was posted on a few LinkedIn Groups. It was initially well received, but, almost as expected, the conversations have degenerated into discussions about the best ways to do hazard … [Read more...] about 9 Great Reasons Why You Should Stop Doing Hazard Inspections

Filed Under: Hazards, Humble Inquiry Tagged With: checklists, hazard hunt, hazard inspection

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