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The Colour of Safety

December 28, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 23 Comments

The Colour of Safety It’s been a while since I bought a set of colouring pencils, but I bought a set this week. Oh, you say, that’s not unusual, you probably bought them for your grandchildren? Actually, I bought them, for myself. You will see at the end of this blog what is unique about the … [Read more...] about The Colour of Safety

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: arational, colour, hazardman, psychological, unconscious mind

When You Don’t Know About Safety Hire a Marketing Agency

December 21, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

When You Don’t Know About Safety Hire a Marketing Agency It seems to be the trend that when you don’t know about safety you engage a marketing agency. This is certainly the case with Melbourne Metro (Dumb Ways to Die) and with Worksafe ACT (Hazardman). The real problem with agencies that don’t know … [Read more...] about When You Don’t Know About Safety Hire a Marketing Agency

Filed Under: Robert Long, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: dumb ways to die, hazardman, marketing safety

HAZARDMAN Won’t Save You

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Hazard Man Won’t Save You Article by Dr Rob Long about a new comic based safety campaign about to be launched in Schools. The reaction from my two teenage boys: “Huh? - that’s just stupid!” and “Geez, Nooo!” Watch the video below and you will see what I mean! Quote: It is amazing that the … [Read more...] about HAZARDMAN Won’t Save You

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Training Tagged With: education, hazardman, heuristics, risk, School Safety

Safety Entitlement and Compulsory Safety Mis-Education

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Safety Entitlement and Compulsory Safety Mis-Education Image Source As things continue to remain unchanged in the safety sphere safety people turn to the schooling system for the next bite at the cherry. Publication of injury statistics of young workers injured at work always seems to spark the … [Read more...] about Safety Entitlement and Compulsory Safety Mis-Education

Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: binary thinking, education, hazardman, Safety, School Safety

Safety Utopia as Abuse

June 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Safety Utopia as Abuse Hugh 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 ; … [Read more...] about Safety Utopia as Abuse

Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: fallibility, hazardman, risk aversion, safety moments, safety utopia

The Convenience of Complacency

May 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The Convenience of Complacency One 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 to quickly ensure that … [Read more...] about The Convenience of Complacency

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

Understanding Conscience and Safety

November 13, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Understanding Conscience and Safety Conscience refers to an unconscious sense of ethics, most often associated with intuition and implicit knowledge. One’s conscience refers to a way of ethical decision making associated with heuristics and emotional sensemaking. Conscience informs judgment and … [Read more...] about Understanding Conscience and Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Science, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: conscience, hazardman, Safety, Safety dementia

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 >>>>>>> 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 … [Read more...] about Christmas Safety Poem

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 It’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 Worksafe ‘Pickled’ campaign is a classic example in the long … [Read more...] about Eat Your Veggies Little Timmy, This Safety Asparagus is Good for You

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!! Safety 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 bring in and impossible to take away. This is the … [Read more...] about Hazardman Disappears

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

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