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Quirky Things That Work When Trying To Help Others

March 26, 2025 by George Robotham Leave a Comment

Quirky things that work when trying to help others With the current safety theme trending toward HELPING (see Safety as a Helping Profession and I was just trying to help), I thought it timely to republish this post by the late George Robotham who wrote this a few years ago with some input … [Read more...] about Quirky Things That Work When Trying To Help Others

Filed Under: George Robotham, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: health and safety, help, helping, mentor, problem solving, safety leadership, safety professional, Safety Reflections, safety training

The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership

September 8, 2024 by George Robotham Leave a Comment

Reflection from the late GEORGE ROBOTHAM - See his other articles HERE This is probably one of the most significant pieces of work that I have published for sometime. I have been involved with its evolution for quite a while now and it has been peer reviewed of over 50 professionals and modified … [Read more...] about The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership

Filed Under: George Robotham, Humble Inquiry, Safety Leadership Tagged With: health and safety, safety leadership

Risk and Safety as a Social Psychological Problem

June 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Risk and Safety as a Social Psychological Problem By Dr Rob Long Image Source: HSE Myth Busters When one reads through the many resources and programs about risk and safety one could be forgiven for thinking that safety compliance would be much easier if it didn’t involve people. I often get … [Read more...] about Risk and Safety as a Social Psychological Problem

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: health and safety, Risk Management

Health, the Poor Cousin of Safety

March 10, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The use of OHS, WHS and AIHS really doesn’t indicate the way Safety works. There is no sense of balance of Safety with Health in the safety industry. The reality is it’s: OS & H, WS & H and, AIS & H. Health has always been the poor cousin of safety and this is no more evident than the … [Read more...] about Health, the Poor Cousin of Safety

Filed Under: Health, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: health and safety, ohs

Non Common Sense Mythology

February 21, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 25 Comments

Article by Dr Robert Long, rouse around all you common sense and zero zealots surely we can escalate more things to ban and more things to police. If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE. I highly recommend you check out Rob’s book “RISK MAKES SENSE” Non Common … [Read more...] about Non Common Sense Mythology

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Myths, Zero Harm Tagged With: health and safety, safety slogan, Zero Harm

Why I Care About Health & Safety Management

April 18, 2016 by Admin 12 Comments

Why I Care About Health & Safety Management First article published by Dean Bell on his new website – see it here - Most readers will totally relate to this! (I know he would really appreciate your feedback on his article and his new site). Thanks for the mentions Dean – very much … [Read more...] about Why I Care About Health & Safety Management

Filed Under: Safety Leadership Tagged With: caring, health and safety

HEALTH and safety–the devolution of society

June 2, 2015 by Admin 7 Comments

HEALTH and safety – the devolution of society – what the hell does this have to do with cats? We don’t often publish posts on this blog about the HEALTH aspects of OHS, lots of articles about the brain and psychology but perhaps we should focus more attention on our bodies – after all they are the … [Read more...] about HEALTH and safety–the devolution of society

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: cats kittens, devolution, diet, health and safety

A Different Twist To Health & Safety

June 13, 2014 by George Robotham 5 Comments

A Different Twist To Health & Safety Guest Post by the late George Robotham  I listened to indigenous healer Don Tolman on 98.9 FM Indigenous Radio yesterday. He was certainly a zealot, zealots usually enthuse or worry me, I suspect he did a bit of both. Some of his messages were- He … [Read more...] about A Different Twist To Health & Safety

Filed Under: George Robotham, Health Tagged With: disease, health and safety, natural diet

Safety Committees – How to run an Occupational Health and Safety Meeting

November 6, 2013 by Barry Spud 5 Comments

Safety Committees - How to run an Occupational Health and Safety Meeting Warning - some may find this very boring! Others may not :-)  School committees, sporting committees, church committees and workplace committees ... we are all familiar with different committees but how do committees … [Read more...] about Safety Committees – How to run an Occupational Health and Safety Meeting

Filed Under: Workplace Safety Tagged With: church committees, committee members, daily safety, elements, goals and objectives, health and safety, objective, occupational health and safety, Safety Committee, safety committees, Safety Procedures, school committees, successful committee, timely manner, vested interest, workplace safety

Schoolies face Gold Coast balcony ban

October 30, 2013 by Admin 5 Comments

Schoolies face Gold Coast balcony ban We wrote about this issue 3 years ago and it is still ongoing despite a tragic balcony death last year! Some apartment owners are doing the right thing. See recent article in the Courier Mail Having nearly been hit by a watermelon thrown of a balcony a few … [Read more...] about Schoolies face Gold Coast balcony ban

Filed Under: Balconies and Balustrades Tagged With: Balconies, balcony, balustrade, Body Corporate, Child Safety, gold coast, health and safety, Insurance, lockout, office of fair trading, projectiles, queensland, rise apartment, safety concerns, safety risk, school exams, schoolies, watermelon

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