The obsession of Safety with ‘performance’ and measuring ‘performance’ is not really what performance is about. What is ‘safety performance’? If I’m alive at the end of the day, is that good ‘safety performance’? The best way to understand what performance is about is through a reading of … [Read more...] about If You Want to Wreck Good Performance, Measure It!
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Tips to Become a Top Safety Performer?
I flew to Adelaide recently to see two bands that I love: Crowded House and Cold Chisel. The performances were one each night of the Adelaide 500. Both bands were amazing. Unfortunately, each of these bands were preceded by other bands whose performances were less than average. But beauty is in the … [Read more...] about Tips to Become a Top Safety Performer?
Winning The Hearts And Minds Of Workers In Relation To Safety
Winning The Hearts And Minds Of Workers In Relation To Safety - Advice To Managers, Supervisors And Safety People Classic post by the late George Robotham Image Source A manager in Nigeria, of all places, approached me to give some advice on getting the workers on side in safety. Rightly or … [Read more...] about Winning The Hearts And Minds Of Workers In Relation To Safety
Positive Performance Indicators
Positive Performance Indicators - The better way of measuring safety performance? By the late great George Robotham Quotable Quote "A health & safety problem can be described by statistics but cannot be understood by statistics. It can only be understood by knowing and feeling the pain, … [Read more...] about Positive Performance Indicators
Maximizing the Effective use of Incentives to improve safety performance
Maximizing the Effective use of Incentives to improve safety performance Scientific Proof of what many of us have know for ages – financial incentive schemes for not getting hurt are Crap! Great article by David Carter from Safety Success Extract: There are two areas of the brain that … [Read more...] about Maximizing the Effective use of Incentives to improve safety performance
Measuring Health and Safety Performance
A Review of Commonly-Used Performance Indicators By Jerome E. Spear, CSP, CIH How an organization measures performance undoubtedly influences organizational behavior. However, measuring safety is difficult because it is difficult to predict the impact that new safety metrics will have … [Read more...] about Measuring Health and Safety Performance
18 Ominous Signs of a Deteriorating Culture of Safety
18 Ominous Signs of a Deteriorating Culture of Safety Latest from Digicast Workplace Communicator Blog. Download their free checklist! As a business or safety leader, you know how important it is to have a high functioning workplace safety culture. After all, if you a have an optimal … [Read more...] about 18 Ominous Signs of a Deteriorating Culture of Safety
Measure Health and Safety Performance
Measure Health and Safety Performance Recent article by OHS Reps @ Work. Outlining the negative aspects of using traditional safety performance indicators: Too often, the only measures used in workplaces and by government authorities are 'negative' measures. These are known as outcome indicators, … [Read more...] about Measure Health and Safety Performance
LTIFR – A Measure of Safety Performance?
LTIFR - A Measure of Safety Performance? By Tom Gardener Look at almost any company's annual report and you'll find some comments about what the business is doing to improve their safety performance - usually measured by the number of injuries they've had that year and more specifically how many … [Read more...] about LTIFR – A Measure of Safety Performance?