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Christmas Safety Poem

December 1, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Enjoy our new 2020 Xmas Safety Poem “Safety Tells” (sung to jingle bells) HERE >>>>>>>

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Christmas Safety Poem – A Hazardman Christmas

Republished in 2020 by demand, first published 2016 – enjoy again:

News from the UK and reported in the Daily Mail:

Elf and safety forces Nativity procession Mary … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems Tagged With: christmas message, hazardman, Holiday safety, Safety Poem

Eat Your Veggies Little Timmy, This Safety Asparagus is Good for You

August 29, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Eat Your Veggies Little Timmy, This Safety Asparagus is Good for You

imageIt’s no longer amazing, when Safety doesn’t know what to do it comes up with some crazy PR shlock to feed to the masses or some weird way to pickle safety. The NZ … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: dumb ways to die, hazardman, mums for safety, pickled

Hazardman Disappears

February 27, 2017 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Hazardman Disappears!!

HazardmanSafety is one of those activities that is excellent at addition but very poor at subtraction. As we most often see, even with the most obscene, unethical and dumb idea in safety (eg. Dumb Ways to Die – DWTD), are easy to … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: hazardman

The Convenience of Complacency

October 23, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

The Convenience of Complacency

clip_image002One of the cultural characteristics of the safety industry is fundamental attribution error . It seems that safety seeks blame before it breathes, you certainly need to if your job title includes zero.

Whenever there is an event in comes safety … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Construction Safety, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: complacency, hazardman, irrational, linkedin

Safety Utopia as Abuse

October 21, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Safety Utopia as Abuse

hazardman_thumbHugh Mackay (the Good Life) writes about helicopter parenting as a form of abuse. He calls the delusional quest for perfection ‘the Utopia Complex’. More and more research is showing that the Utopia Complex projects a by-product of abuse ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk ).

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