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Are You a One Percenter?

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Are You a One Percenter? Every so often I get a call or visit from a GM of a global or National organization and we chat about research and latest trends in safety. Today was one of those days with a GM of the largest logistics company in Australia. We chatted about what the safety world says … [Read more...] about Are You a One Percenter?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: 1% safer, one percent safer

1% Safer than What?

June 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

1% Safer than What? I was told today there is now something called ‘the 1% safer movement’, really? What is this industry that frames everything by a number? What is this psychosis with numbers? (https://safetyrisk.net/its-always-a-number/) and what does this mean? If I am 1% safer now than I was … [Read more...] about 1% Safer than What?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: 1% safer, It Works, one percent safer

Wisdom Based Safety

June 16, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 14 Comments

In a appreciative response to a blog on A Philosophy of Safety  John Phillips used the phrase ‘Wisdom-Based Safety ‘(WBS), what a wonderful expression. What a delightful expression and far better than the brutalism of BBS. More on WBS later. There are two most profound indictments of the … [Read more...] about Wisdom Based Safety

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Ethics, Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, archetype, Archetypes, one percent safer, safety archetype, wisdom based safety

Safety Silver Bullet

April 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Latest article by Dr Robert Long which attacks the idea that one can solve a safety system problem by simply building ever expanding safety systems! Oh and a little swipe at BBS and Zero Harm! If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE. I highly recommend you check … [Read more...] about Safety Silver Bullet

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Wicked Problems, Zero Harm Tagged With: 1% safer, BBS, one percent safer, safety culture, safety slogan, Safety Systems, silver bullet, Zero Harm

Advancing Backwards in Safety

December 30, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

I had a call from a mate this week, the board of his company have been mesmerised by a presentation of the latest advances in safety. So I asked to see a copy of this presentation expecting some astounding research and scintillating stuff taking safety into the future. So what did I see? Bradley … [Read more...] about Advancing Backwards in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: 1% safer, Bradley Curve, culture, heinrich, one percent safer, safety models, transdisciplinarity

Could Understanding Grey Be The Silver Bullet

December 1, 2022 by Rob Sams 20 Comments

Could understanding Grey, be the ‘silver bullet’? Since I started writing on Safetyrisk.net in November 2013, I’ve received lots of great feedback thoughts, questions and even criticisms about my posts which I appreciate. A key theme of the feedback that I receive is that some of the concepts … [Read more...] about Could Understanding Grey Be The Silver Bullet

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: 1% safer, by-products, one percent safer, ppe, risk assessment, silver bullet, trade-offs, weick

Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know

June 1, 2022 by Admin 48 Comments

Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know Republished by request  Here are 10 and a bit things about safety that I plucked from some recent blog posts, that singularly or collectively only a handful of people may know. Or, if they knew them, perhaps did not know … [Read more...] about Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know

Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Risk Homeostasis, Semiotics, Workplace Safety Tagged With: 1% safer, one percent safer, Safety, Zero Harm

Freedom to Harm, the Gig Economy and Zero

April 19, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Freedom to Harm, the Gig Economy and Zero One of the jokes of the zero cult is its selective approach to harm. Injury rates are always calculated against definitions that suit political agendas. The zero cult doesn’t know it has a political agenda because the ideology of zero prizes itself on dumb, … [Read more...] about Freedom to Harm, the Gig Economy and Zero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: gig economy, one percent safer

The Fallacy of Marginal Gains and Nudges

March 28, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Fallacy of Marginal Gains and Nudges One of the characteristics of safety marketing is the continual clutching at straws to motivate and move people towards safety. We see this in the endless campaigns for: pickles, Mums for Safety, Hazardman, meerkats, sexy sofie etc.. It seems anything is … [Read more...] about The Fallacy of Marginal Gains and Nudges

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, marginal gains, nudge, one percent safer

It’s Always a Number

September 18, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

It’s Always a Number I was on a conference today and the first question set to the panel was about a number. I didn’t respond to the question but rather asked the conference, why is safety so good at asking dumb questions? It doesn’t matter whether its injury rates, percentages, zero or TRIFR etc, … [Read more...] about It’s Always a Number

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, numbers, one percent safer

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