The Safety Blame Game Far too many people involved in OHS, including some Safety People, spend too much time playing the blame game. Article by the late George Robotham When you pick up the newspaper and listen to the television or radio you will find terms like driver error, human error and … [Read more...] about The Safety Blame Game
LTIFR
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate reflections by the late George Robotham – More Pearls of Wisdom Here The Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate is the principal measure of safety performance in many companies in Australia. The definition of L.T.I.F.R. is the number of Lost Time Injuries multiplied by 1 … [Read more...] about Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate
The 15 Major Impediments To OHS Success
The 15 Major Impediments To OHS Success 1 Lack of succinct paperwork. There is not much point in having detailed paperwork that is too much like hard work to read. The OHS world is famous for long ponderous paper work that no one reads, cares about or uses. Busy people do not have time to read … [Read more...] about The 15 Major Impediments To OHS Success
The Good Bad and Ugly of Georges 38 Year OHS Career
The Good, Bad & Ugly of George’s 38 Year OHS Career By the late George Robotham You are likely to learn more from reading this excellent reflection than you will ever learn at Safety University. Enjoy: I normally aim to produce succinct documentation and I have broken my own rule with this 40 … [Read more...] about The Good Bad and Ugly of Georges 38 Year OHS Career
Scale of the Universe–Cool Tool
Scale of the Universe–Cool Tool Not exactly safety related but this will keep a bored safety professional occupied for hours! Take a break from calculating LTIFR to 3 decimal places and check this out……..Scroll in and out from the smallest known thing (quantum foam? at 0.000000001 yoctometers) to … [Read more...] about Scale of the Universe–Cool Tool
Effective evaluation of an organisation’s OHS performance
Effective evaluation of an organisation’s OHS performance Article by the late George Robotham See all of George’s unique takes on OHS here: george-robotham I was asked to write about this topic and I am not confident I have a good response. I am aware my ideas about this topic will be different … [Read more...] about Effective evaluation of an organisation’s OHS performance
Measure Health and Safety Performance
Measure Health and Safety Performance Recent article by OHS Reps @ Work. Outlining the negative aspects of using traditional safety performance indicators: Too often, the only measures used in workplaces and by government authorities are 'negative' measures. These are known as outcome indicators, … [Read more...] about Measure Health and Safety Performance
OHS 2012 Where Are We Now?
George Robotham reflects back over the changes, or lack there of, in the last 11 years. Comments and criticisms are bound be many and are totally encouraged. Be warned, no punches have been pulled! Quote: “Many of the people who work in OHS are strongly locked into traditional approaches and have … [Read more...] about OHS 2012 Where Are We Now?