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Investigating Our Batting Collapse

Investigating Our Batting Collapse I’m a cricket fan. I have been all my life and it’s one of the highlights of the year for me when my best mates and I head to a day or two watching the cricket, it’s an annual pilgrimage. You might not be surprised then… Learn more >>>>>
Posted on February 22, 2015May 4, 2017

Hind-sight, Risk Savvy and the Unexpected

Hind-sight, Risk Savvy and the Unexpected People often talk about the “benefit of hind-sight”; but does hind-sight prepare us to manage the unexpected? Hind-sight – it is a good thing right? It helps us make sense of the world right? It sometimes gives us the courage to continue right? These… Learn more >>>>>
Posted on October 18, 2014October 18, 2014

History and Hindsight in Safety

History and Hindsight in Safety In this post I wish to continue the discussion about significance through a discussion of history. It was Weick who said: ‘I don’t know what I believe until I see what I do’. In other words, everything we ‘know’ is retrospective. Humans have unlimited hindsight… Learn more >>>>>

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The Semiotics of COVID-19 and the Social Amplification of Risk

What can we learn from the semiotics of the Coronavirus crisis? Semiotics is the study of signs and symbol systems and how they emerge from and penetrate the human unconscious. Semiosis is the study of how these symbols systems/myths create… Read the rest

Safety Pandemic

Does anybody really believe this silly platitude that I spotted plastered all over our local McDonalds this morning? I’m not sure how many bugs are harbouring and multiplying behind them? Some thoughts from Linkedin: Keeping the restaurant clean and employees… Read the rest

Let thy factsheet be thy shield

Special Guest post by Mindful Millie Last week I read a statistic (it was on the internet so it must be true) that Google searches about domestic violence had increased by 75 per cent since the first recorded COVID-19 cases… Read the rest

Working From Home Health and Safety Tips – Covid-19

Working From Home Safety Tips – Coronavirus https://safetyrisk.net/covid-19-work-from-home-safety-checklists-and-risk-assessments/  Working from home, or telecommuting, is becoming compulsory (furloughed) in the wake of social isolation due to the COVID-19 virus spread. I’ve done it for years and, despite the disadvantages, I couldn’t imagine… Read the rest

Beware False Profits and Messiahs in Safety

One of the frightening by-products of the coronavirus crisis is the rise of Linkedin legends and OHS messiahs. Along with fish ‘n chip senators and Sky News propaganda we now have OHS experts launching into the ‘unprecedented’ Covid-19 space as … Read the rest

Covid-19 and the Hierarchy of Control

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 … Read the rest

On Confinement

Thanks to Rob Long for sharing this article from https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/on-confinement/ . A great read for all those furloughed at the moment and perhaps feeling like you are missing out on something: At some point in the 1650s, the French philosopher… Read the rest

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How’s the Hot Desking Going Covid?

imageOne of the benefits of the Covid-19 epidemic is a total rethink about how we live and work (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-28/coronavirus-could-reshape-how-australians-work-forever/12097124 ).

 

Expertise by Regurgitation and Re-Badging

One of the fascinating things about the Coronavirus pandemic is watching Safety morph into epidemiology expertise. I would like a dollar for every flyer, presentation, podcast, powerpoint, checklist template, toolbox talk and poster set that had jumped into my inbox… Read the rest

 

The Stress of Stasis

One of the challenging things about the Coronavirus crisis is stasis. For those without work and confined to home, for those in self-isolation, it’s like life is frozen in time. ‘Stay at home’ is the mantra. The trouble is, in… Read the rest

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