Due Diligence Workshops Oversubscribed If you are looking to attend the Due Diligence Workshop on 28,29 November 2018 (https://cllr.com.au/product/due-diligence-workshop-unit-13/) with Dr Rob Long and Greg Smith in Sydney there are no more places. The enrolment is ‘choc a block’ so we may run another workshop early in the New Year. Following on from the successful […]
Due Diligence
Due Diligence Workshop
Due Diligence Workshop Due Diligence is not a product of legislation. Due diligence is a broad organisational and individual responsibility that existed as a legal principle long before Work Health and Safety legislation. Every major accident inquiry anywhere in the world for the past 30 years has been critical of the failure of Due Diligence […]
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The Safety Worldview and the Worldview of Safety, Testing Due Diligence
The Safety Worldview and the Worldview of Safety, Testing Due Diligence Following the World Congress on Safety and Health 2017 (https://safetyrisk.net/no-evidence-for-the-religion-of-zero/) I begin to wonder just how more absurd the safety industry can become. It is clear from the Congress that safety is now the filter through which one views life rather than, life being […]
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But We Have Safety Systems in Place
But We Have Safety Systems in Place One of the most successful myths of Safety is that one is protected by having systems in place. What we learned from Greg Smith in Risky Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology and Risk (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/risky-conversations/) was that having a system in place means nothing in court unless one can […]
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Developing Assurance in Risk and Safety
Developing Assurance in Risk and Safety One of the learnings of the CLLR Due Diligence Program is the importance of developing assurance. A signature at the bottom of a risk assessment sometimes doesn’t mean much more than the person knows how to sign their name. Collecting multiples of risk assessments and signatures like some tier […]
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No Hope for Humans in Zero Harm
No Hope for Humans in Zero Harm Last week Greg Smith and I hosted a 2 day workshop on Due Diligence at the Wayside Chapel Kings Cross. What better place to understand the nature of diligence, neglect and hope. We met in the seminar room (see pics below) and were catered for by the people […]
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Bells and Whistles and Due Diligence
Bells and Whistles and Due Diligence The key to Due Diligence is demonstrating that your critical risks are being managed and that you can demonstrate ‘assurance’ that your methods to tackle risk ‘work’. It is amazing with all the ‘bells and whistles’ about that people lose sight of these fundamentals. Due Diligence is about tackling […]
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Marketing Safety and Due Diligence
Marketing Safety and Due Diligence I don’t get this constant need to make safety ‘sexy’. One of the videos that received an award at the recent Zero Vision World Congress in Safety is a typical example: If you want to see how unprofessional Safety is, just check out how unethical and desperate Safety gets in […]
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Safety and Risk Due Diligence as a Moral Activity
Safety and Risk Due Diligence as a Moral Activity Some excellent additional resources and free videos at the end of the article…………. There are checklists that abound that give the impression that Due Diligence is either a mathematical equation or ‘tick the box’ exercise. However, this distorts the meaning of Due Diligence. One can complete […]
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WHS Reporting and Due Diligence: Some practical thoughts
By Greg Smith, WHS Lawyer. First published here Quote from the article: If two people die in an electrical incident at your workplace, nobody cares what your last safety culture survey reveals. You need to demonstrate how the risk of electrocution was managed in your organisation, and whether it was managed effectively. No one cares […]
