Some Christmas Reading for Risk and Safety People (editors note: Try “Fallibility and Risk” by Dr Rob Long – its free to download here: https://safetyrisk.net/free-safety-ebooks/ ) Christmas and New Years is often a time to catch up on some reading and relax on the beach or by a river and take in a page or […]
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The Embodiment of Christmas
The Embodiment of Christmas One of the messages of Christmas is the importance of embodiment. It is in our bodies that we experience the necessities of being human as well as the joys of being human. It is through our bodies that we know the fullness of fallibility and the many ambiguities of experience, learning […]
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CLLR Christmas 2016 Newsletter and Competition
Happy Christmas and New Year This is a special edition of the CLLR Newsletter to wish you all a Happy Christmas and the best for the 2017 New Year. We look forward to continuing our newsletters and services to you in 2017 and look forward to meeting some of you as you commence studies with […]
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Fake News, Fake Safety and Fake Christmas
Fake News, Fake Safety and Fake Christmas The craft of misinformation has been about for millennia but more recently with the problems of social media has become much more pronounced. The Cult of the Amateur (Keen, 2008) and the world of The Shallows (Carr, 2011) has brought a whole new era of ‘fake news’. This […]
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Shaking Hands and Christmas Unsafety
Shaking Hands and Christmas Unsafety I remember as a young child we would tease each other about touching girls and boys. ‘Ah, you’ve got girl germs’ we would say to tease our mates if they happened to brush against a girl, or we would push them into a girl and then make the accusation. Of […]
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It’s a Risky Christmas
It’s a Risky Christmas – A Xmas Safety Poem without the word Safety In it: “So what is the rush to complete stuff before the end of the year about… here is a little poem that puts the highlight on the dangers of rushing to complete at Christmas time; it is about safety without mentioning […]
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Christmas Competition–Positive Safety Initiatives
Christmas Competition–Positive Safety Initiatives We would like to end the year with a competition that encourages people to share some of their positive safety initiatives from 2015. It doesn’t have to be as major as the announcements from GM and Laing O’Rourke that they are dumping injury metrics (more info here) but we would love […]
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Zero Harm, Santa Claus and Other Such Myths
Zero Harm, Santa Claus and Other Such Myths It’s beginning to look at lot like….. well you know the song. It’s that time of the year where you can’t take a trip to the shopping centre (mall) without the sounds of carols and other Christmas songs dominating the airwaves. It’s also that time of the […]
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Funny Safety Pictures and Photos
Funny Safety Pictures and Photos YOU REALLY SHOULD READ OUR ARTICLE ABOUT WHY WE LOVE TO LOOK AT STUPID SAFETY PHOTOS AND VIDEOS. Read it here………… HUGE COLLECTION OF FUNNY SAFETY PHOTOS TOON CLIPART – choose from thousands of great cartoon images for use on websites, newsletters, brochures, announcements, Powerpoint presentations and more… All images […]
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Keeping workers motivated over Christmas
Keeping workers motivated over Christmas Excerpt from latest article by Inside Retailing that relates well to safety issues faced by all organizations: Retailworld Resourcing released their top five tips for improving motivation and morale over the December month, when workplace morale often diminishes. CEO of Retailworld Resourcing, John Caldwell says: “Workers tend to become less […]
