Dobbing, Culture and Risk It’s such a laugh, watching people launch a ‘dob in line’ in Australia. We saw this recently with the Government’s ‘dobseeker’ hotline . And we see this approach with regulators and others in Safety , with some weird idea that ‘blowing the whistle’ to un-safety ‘works’. This is kindergarten culture stuff? […]
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The Scars and Harm You Don’t See and Can’t Count
The Scars and Harm You Don’t See and Can’t Count You don’t know what safety is. I know what real safety is, 1km underground in a grubby longwall, now that’s safety. Yep, 200 metres up on the end of a harness, now that’s safety. You don’t know what safety is, sitting for 3 days behind […]
Safety Crusading on Full Show
In the true tradition of only Safety knows best, safety tells (https://safetyrisk.net/xmas-safety-poem-safety-tells/), dumbs for safety (https://safetyrisk.net/dumbs-for-safety/) and this toaster is hot (https://safetyrisk.net/this-toaster-is-hot/) we have this one. I visited the National Museum (NMA) (https://www.nma.gov.au/) this morning to see the new mirror installation that has only been up for a few weeks. We have had no hot […]
Safety Crusaders Anonymous
Hi, I’m Dave and I am a Safety Crusader…….. You may also enjoy: Are You A Safety Crusader Or A Safety Leader When I started this blog, six year ago, I was a self-confessed Safety Crusader. You can still see the remnants and residue of that time in the older articles about safety slogans, compliance […]
I was just trying to Help
I was just trying to Help A friend called me recently to tell me that they’d lost their job. They couldn’t understand the decision and we spoke for an hour or so working through the roller coaster of emotions they were feeling, from anger, to frustration, to anxiousness and amazement. I just listened, that’s really […]
