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Measurement in Safety, You’ve Got it All Wrong

October 23, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

Circle from color foldersI read a recent article by Alan Quilley (http://www.safetyresults.ca/) on measuring safety by injury rate and was fascinated by the logic. I enjoyed the video on regression to the mean (Prevention of Incidents VS Creating Safety) and the discussion on injury … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Satire, Safety Statistics, Safety systems, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: bounded rationality, flooding, injury data, measurement, safety management systems, sms

Making the World fit the Safety Worldview

May 7, 2017 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

world protection Making the World fit the Safety Worldview

One of the drivers of the work of Martin Heidegger  was his reaction to the determinist and reductionist view of Rene Descartes . The Cartesian worldview understands the world in an atomistic way, reducing certainty down to first … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: injury data, matrix, mental health, STEM, world view

Safety is an Art

October 17, 2014 by Dr Rob Long 52 Comments

Safety is an Art

safety paintSafety has much more to do with Art, History and Philosophy than it has to do with Science, Engineering and Law. I recently wrote The Target Drives the Method about the subjectivity of determining ‘significance’ that is a precursor to this … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: art, engineering, injury data, laws, Safety, science, weick

Forecasting Safety

August 23, 2014 by Dr Rob Long 38 Comments

Forecasting Safety

Here’s the challenge for anyone who holds to the mantra ‘all accidents are preventable’. Ask them to predict how long it will be in their organisation or any organisation for that matter, that they will be harm free. Hopefully they will go to … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: accidents are preventable, forecasting, injury data, LTIFR, Safety, Zero Harm

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

March 19, 2014 by Alan Quilley 4 Comments

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

By Alan Quilley

0, number from military fabric texture on white background.I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking and writing about the variety of associated problems with using injury data to support the belief that low injury/damage results equate to a corporation being safe. The … Learn more >>>>>

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