How strange that when something goes wrong Safety flocks to Engineering for its reasoning. Even though Engineering has been deleted from safety association titles, it remains the raison d'être for safety. We observe this in the Coronial Enquiry into the Dreamworld Tragedy. The 274-page Dreamworld … [Read more...] about An Engineering Dreamworld
Dreamworld
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! Robert Burns Welcome to the Australian Hinstitute of Heinrich and Skinner fake newsletter for October 2020. This special edition coincides with National Safe Work Month and commemorates several notorious disasters, which … [Read more...] about The Brady Bunch
Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget
Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget Two of the active cultural by-products of excessive paperwork and Papersafe safety (https://www.waylandlegal.com.au/post/paper-safe) are Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget. Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget are co-joined heuristics people develop as habits for completing something … [Read more...] about Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget
River of tears
Integrity has no need of rules Albert Camus 1 On 25th October 2016 a tragic incident on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at the Ardent Leisure Dreamworld amusement park near Queensland’s Gold Coast, claimed the lives of four people. A circular raft containing six passengers collided with an empty … [Read more...] about River of tears
River of tears
River of tears On 25th October 2016 a tragic incident on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at the Ardent Leisure Dreamworld amusement park near Queensland’s Gold Coast, claimed the lives of four people. A circular raft containing six passengers collided with an empty vessel and flipped upwards and … [Read more...] about River of tears
Safety Disconnect and the Dreamworld Tragedy
A commentary by WHS Lawyer Greg Smith – first published here: https://mysafetythoughts.com/2016/10/29/welcome-to-the-intellectual-vacuum-that-is-political-comment-on-whs/ Welcome to the intellectual vacuum that is political comment on WHS Today (29 October 2016) the ABC had an article on the … [Read more...] about Safety Disconnect and the Dreamworld Tragedy
