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FOR THE LOVE OF ZERO, THE SAFETY GOAL WAS LOST

FOR THE LOVE OF ZERO, THE SAFETY GOAL WAS LOST DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK FREE HERE: https://safetyrisk.net/for-the-love-of-zero-now-free-to-download/  This was one of the entries, sent in by Cip Corva, for our recent “For The Love of Zero Contest”.  I thought it was brilliant and worthy of its own post (if safety is zero harm then love is just …

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Binary Opposites and Safety Goal Strategy

Republished by request and now with accompanying video (at end of article). This article was referenced in the must read new book: Risky Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology and Risk (follow that link for a really cool video on the myths of safety paperwork) Quote from the article: The denial of the zero goal is …

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A Better Safety Goal Than Zero Harm?

A Better Safety Goal Than Zero Harm? Its that time of year again – To all the regular readers and commenters on this blog I would like to wish you all a Very Merry Xmas. To those of you who really don't like much of what you read here I’d like to wish you a …

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Understanding Safety Goals

Unless the safety community are prepared to be a bit more sophisticated and less simplistic about goal setting we will continue to fuel scepticism via non-sense prevention goals like zero harm, rather than safety promotion in the workplace.  Understanding Safety Goals ‘Rather than measure what we value, we tend to value what we can measure’ …

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Safety Leadership Essentials

Safety Leadership Essentials   A friend showed me a four day course they had to attend for their company titled ‘Safety Leadership’. As I looked through the materials I couldn’t see anything I thought resembled ‘leadership’ in safety. The course was cover to cover with the fundamentals of hazard identification, risk basics, communication basics, hierarchy …

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