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May 7, 2017February 22, 2019

Making the World fit the Safety Worldview

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,… Read the rest

October 23, 2015November 4, 2015

Measurement in Safety, You’ve Got it All Wrong

Measurement in Safety, You’ve Got it All Wrong I 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… Read the rest

October 17, 2014July 22, 2015

Safety is an Art

Safety is an Art Safety 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… Read the rest

August 23, 2014March 20, 2019

Forecasting Safety

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.… Read the rest

March 19, 2014June 22, 2018

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results By Alan Quilley 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… Read the rest