How Many Safety People Know What Schadenfreude Means? From the Oxford Dictionary: NOUN Pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. ‘a business that thrives on Schadenfreude’ ‘a frisson of Schadenfreude’ Origin: German Schadenfreude, from Schaden ‘harm’ + Freude ‘joy’. If you waste any time on LinkedIn then you would realise that the posts that […]
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Free Release of All Risky Conversation Safety Videos
Free Release of All Risky Conversation Safety Videos Following the success of the Risky Conversations series (https://vimeo.com/album/3938199) Greg and Rob have decided to release access to ALL the videos for free. This release follows on from their most successful presentation of their two day Due Diligence workshop in New Zealand. The full transcripts of the […]
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Measuring in Risk and Safety
Measuring in Risk and Safety It has become fashionable for organisations to use positive or leading indicators as a way to ‘measure’ their risk and safety ‘performance’. Leaders in some organisations have proudly told us how they are ‘progressive’, ‘generative’ and ‘world class’ because they focus on leading indictors and ‘the stuff that makes a […]
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Safety Can Be a Beautiful Thing
Safety Can Be Beautiful Thing Renowned for their creativity and humour, This is the latest Flight Safety Video from Air New Zealand: “Safety in Paradise” Air New Zealand has partnered with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit to celebrate 50 their years. Who would have thought you could get in trouble for paying too much attention to a […]
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New Safety Video–Dumb Ways to Die
New Safety Video – Dumb Ways To Die STOP PRESS – you may be interested in this critical review of the video by Dr Rob Long – Dumb Ways to Measure effectiveness and this one by Marie Claire-Ross: https://safetyrisk.net/5-dumb-ways-communicate-train-safety/ This quirky little safety video “DUMB WAYS TO DIE” has gone viral on Youtube (14million+ hits). It will have […]
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A Case of Desensitisation – What Would You Do?
Believe it or not one of the most popular search terms on this site is “gory safety videos”!!! But do shock and horror war stories really encourage safe behaviour or is it just voyeurism that creates the interest?. You will really enjoy this latest article by Dr Robert Long. If you liked this article then […]
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Safety Of Young Workers
Safety Of Young Workers – Graphic Training Videos When it comes to training workers it is always best if safety training starts as early as possible. However, many employers (and parents and teachers) are concerned about how to effectively get through to this age group. This is the same concern the authorities have had […]
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Safety Culture–Does Anyone Really Want to Get Hurt
Safety Culture–Does Anyone Really Want to Get Hurt This new website SAFETY CULTURE PLUS, has been put together by safety culture and Job Safety Analysis Guru and Author, James Roughton. As part of his ongoing efforts to promote a safety culture, his blog contains posts from his personal experience, related-items from the web internet that […]
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Free Safety Videos
Free Safety Videos Free Safety Videos Thanks to SJ from The SafetyToolshed for putting us onto these free safety videos from US Chemical Safety Board. They are some of the best safety videos we have seen – and they are FREE! They don’t pull any punches and most feature real life incident situations, investigations live […]
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Heart Wrenching Road Safety Video
Heart Wrenching Road Safety Video This is a 20th anniversary compilation of road safety videos. Seeing them one at a time over the years isn’t too bad but seeing them all together is something else. Make sure you watch the whole 5 off minutes. WARNING: Very graphic and realist accident scenes, regardless of how […]
