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Target Trade-Offs and Numeric Goals
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Humanising Workers Compensation (Sydney Workshop)
Semiotics, Semiology and Safety Sense
Bounded Rationality–How Can Too Much Safety Be Bad For You?
Emotions, Bias and Heuristics in Risk
The Safety Control Delusion
Knowledge and Curriculum for Risk and Safety People
Is Complacency Evil?
Selective and Slow Harm is not Zero Harm
Selling Out Safety
Conforming and Questioning in Safety
The Sacred Bra Tree
The Domino Delusion in Safety
The Tension of Opposites and Binaries in Risk
How to Do the Best Risk Assessment
Incommensurability and Discourse in Risk
Rhetoric and Reality in Safety
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How To Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer
How to Make your own Covid-19 Face Mask
Covid-19 Returning To Work Safety, Transitioning, Start Up And Re Entry Plans
How’s the Hot Desking Going Covid?
One of the benefits of the Covid-19 epidemic is a total rethink about how we live and work (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-28/coronavirus-could-reshape-how-australians-work-forever/12097124 ).
Expertise by Regurgitation and Re-Badging
One of the fascinating things about the Coronavirus pandemic is watching Safety morph into epidemiology expertise. I would like a dollar for every flyer, presentation, podcast, powerpoint, checklist template, toolbox talk and poster set that had jumped into my inbox… Read the rest
The Stress of Stasis
One of the challenging things about the Coronavirus crisis is stasis. For those without work and confined to home, for those in self-isolation, it’s like life is frozen in time. ‘Stay at home’ is the mantra. The trouble is, in… Read the rest
