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You Can Fool Someone Some of the Time but, You Can Fool Safety All of the Time

May 12, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 16 Comments

One of the favourite pastimes of Safety is parading ignorance as expertise. We see this constantly with engineers writing on culture and psychosocial health. We even get Safety running programs on learning that have nothing to do with learning nor education. Ah, this is the Safety Way. I was … [Read more...] about You Can Fool Someone Some of the Time but, You Can Fool Safety All of the Time

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: hierachy of control, IOSH, values

Barry Spud’s Hazard Control Tips

August 28, 2020 by Barry Spud Leave a Comment

Barry Spud’s Hazard Control Tips - The Hierarchy Of Hazard Control Barry Spud tells: “The Hierarchy of Hazard Control (I call it the “HOHC”) is the one of the main weapons, in the Safety Crusader’s arsenal, in the war on lost time injuries. It takes a certifiable Safety Expert like myself to know … [Read more...] about Barry Spud’s Hazard Control Tips

Filed Under: Hazards, Risk Management, Safety Humor, Zero Harm Tagged With: barry spud, hierachy of control, HOC, Zero Harm

Censorship and Taboos in Safety

August 23, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Censorship and Taboos in Safety One of the interesting things we do in SPoR workshops is an audit of language, just a simple psychoanalysis of words associated with a key word. For example, ask any group what they associate with the language of ‘safety’ and the responses are dominated by: controls, … [Read more...] about Censorship and Taboos in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Work Method Statements Tagged With: hierachy of control, ppe, swms

Covid-19 and the Hierarchy of Control

April 3, 2020 by Admin 2 Comments

Safety Crusaders the world over are congratulating each other, and feeling very relevant for finding a way to adapt their favourite, overly simplistic model to controlling the spread of Covid-19. As we all know, “The primary cause of incidents is unsafe behaviour” – just what we need to hear during … [Read more...] about Covid-19 and the Hierarchy of Control

Filed Under: Covid-19 Tagged With: coronavirus, hierachy of control

Why Is The Hierarchy Of Control So Ineffective?

April 25, 2017 by Admin 21 Comments

Why Is The Hierarchy Of Control So Ineffective Time to commit ‘Safety Sacrilege’! Where would Safety be without it’s Sexy Curves and Pyramids? See also: Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour For most, safety is about controlling hazards and the tool of choice is the Hierarchy of … [Read more...] about Why Is The Hierarchy Of Control So Ineffective?

Filed Under: PPE, Safety systems, Semiotics, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: hierachy of control

Hierarchy of Controls versus Haddon’s 10 Countermeasures

May 28, 2013 by George Robotham Leave a Comment

Hierarchy of Controls versus Haddon’s 10 Countermeasures Article by George Robotham - B.Ed. (Adult & Workplace Ed.), Grad. Cert. Management of Organisational Change, Grad. Dip. Occupational Hazard Management. The traditional wisdom when developing hazard controls is to apply the Hierarchy of … [Read more...] about Hierarchy of Controls versus Haddon’s 10 Countermeasures

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