Difficulties Calculating LTIFR and Other Safety Indicators By Tom Gardener The difficulties often encountered when calculating LTIFR and other safety indicators are not with the calculation itself but with the data that is included in the calculation. What are hours worked? What is a lost time injury (LTI) or a medical treatment injury? How are […]
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Safety the Simple and Sexy Way
Safety the Simple and Sexy Way There are many, many articles on this site about Semiotics, Simplistic Safety and even Sexy Safety – if you have a few hours to spare you will find some very enjoyable and enlightening reading in there. Rob Sams wrote recently in “There is no way I would do that”: […]
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Culture and Subculture, Which is Safety?
Culture and Subculture, Which is Safety? The SIA BoK chapter on Organisational Culture came out this week. I read with interest that there was no intentional discussion of subcultures in the paper. Of course with so much sunk cost the club will surround the wagons and defend, that’s what it does. Inclusivity is not what […]
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Zero Injuries Is Not Your Goal
Zero Injuries Is Not Your Goal By Bill Sims, Jr. Our new guest writer – see more of his work here Tell Bill what to write next! Go to www.safetyincentives.com/vote It was 1981, and I was in Danville, Virginia. I followed Tom, the safety director thru the dark old textile mill, walking on heart of […]
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Is Safety a Choice You Make?
Is Safety a Choice You Make? One of the things safety seems good at doing is developing illogical slogans and sayings. Some examples are: ‘all accidents are preventable’ and ‘safety is no accident’. The trouble is what we say affects the thinking of others and sets cultural agenda. Half of this silly stuff comes from […]
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Dolphyn Newsletter–The Learning Adventure Continues
Just when you thought all Safety and Risk Newsletters were about legislation, punishment, fines, PPE, snake oil and accidents…………. Dolphyn Newsletter–The Learning Adventure Continues Learning to Embrace Ambiguity "Organisations, despite their apparent preoccupation with facts, numbers, objectivity, concreteness and accountability, are in fact saturated with subjectivity, abstraction, guesses, making do, invention and arbitrariness, just like […]
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Risk and Safety Starts with Being?
********If you are interested in knowing more about the Social Psychology of Risk then a one-off workshop is available this week in Sydney: http://cllr.com.au/product/an-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk-unit-1/****** Risk and Safety Starts with Being? The key to sensemaking is not the question why but the question who. The question why looks for reasons, the question what looks for objects, […]
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Prepositions for Risk and Safety Leadership
Prepositions for Risk and Safety Leadership Article by Dr Rob Long – from www.humandymensions.com – only for the thinkers! Why not do some observing this week and see what are the most popular words spoken and written in your organisation. The way we prime and frame organizational discourse shapes the culture and focus on safety. […]
