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Good Luck to the Luck Deniers

June 21, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

Good Luck to the Luck Deniers How was Donald Horne to know in 1964 that when he wrote a simple little book called The Lucky Country he would sell over 2 million copies? That was lucky, a case of the right book at the right time. The book describes Horne’s understanding of what it means to be … [Read more...] about Good Luck to the Luck Deniers

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: good luck, injury statistics, LTIFR, luck deniers, risk, safety culture

Still Rewarding for Injury Rates???

February 28, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Wouldn’t it be nice if we developed a reward system for our children and it worked giving the results we wanted? Wouldn’t it be great if we could get our teenagers and young people to respond to the rewards and incentives we provide so they might keep themselves out of harm, take less risks and keep … [Read more...] about Still Rewarding for Injury Rates???

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Incentives, Safety Training Tagged With: injury statistics, reward systems

History and Hindsight in Safety

October 18, 2014 by Dr Rob Long 21 Comments

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 but … [Read more...] about History and Hindsight in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: hindsight, history, injury statistics, weick, Zero Harm

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