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 Coronial is a mono-disciplinary exploration … Learn more >>>>>
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 include Aberfan in South Wales and the West … Learn more >>>>>
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 as quickly as possible due to desensitization (https://safetyrisk.net/desensitisation-the-by-product-of-ill-conceived-safety-initiatives/… Learn more >>>>>
Us and them
Everybody knows the boat is leaking, everybody knows that the captain lied
Leonard Cohen 1
Following the Queensland parliamentary inquiry into black lung and its subsequent report a project management office was established to review the sweeping recommendations. This involved development of a revised framework and amendments to current legislation … Learn more >>>>>
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 … Learn more >>>>>
