Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
This is the title of a very easy to read book on the obsession of metrics by Jerry Z. Muller. It should be mandatory reading for anyone in the safety industry.
‘The challenges of ‘tick and flick’ in the culture of safety is endemic. We know … Learn more >>>>>
I read with amusement the Safety Institute of Australia (SIA) piece on 20 February that endorses the nonsense of safety metrics. Framed as ‘news’, this non-news is anti-safety and anti-cultural intelligence. There is no data that can measure safety just as there is no data … Learn more >>>>>
Ken Roberts
www.1on1safety.com
I mentioned in an earlier article I’d explore the Legislator’s role in contemporary workplace safety. Being one for strategy and vision-setting, I searched for an underlying principle that our current safety Legislation might be based on. To my dismay I discovered … Learn more >>>>>
Thanks to John Wettstein from safetystrategies.ca for sharing this.
Whilst most Tier 1 organisations are stuck in a vicious circle of tradition, sunk cost, fear, control, over confidence, paperwork, numbers and creating the illusion of safety, one has decided … Learn more >>>>>
It was Marx (The German Ideology) who said ‘as individuals express their life, so they are’. At the heart of this aphorism is the idea that what is normalized in a culture comprises what the culture is.
One of … Learn more >>>>>
