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Injury Rates and the Danger of Eating Sultanas

March 23, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Injury Rates and the Danger of Eating Sultanas We read recently of the rise in car crashes In Australia caused by eating sultanas. Of course you have to laugh because this is the same binary logic … [Read more...] about Injury Rates and the Danger of Eating Sultanas

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Statistics Tagged With: injury data

Measurement in Safety, You’ve Got it All Wrong

October 23, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

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 more...] about Measurement in Safety, You’ve Got it All Wrong

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

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 … [Read more...] about Making the World fit the Safety Worldview

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 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 … [Read more...] about Safety is an Art

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 … [Read more...] about Forecasting Safety

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 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 … [Read more...] about The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Zero Harm Tagged With: injury data, Safety Statistics, zero goals, zero injuries

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