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Looking Forward, Looking Back

September 9, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

  This cute little song by Slim Dusty lays out the ultimate challenge for Risk and Safety. So much of what characterizes Safety is about looking backward. Counting data, LTIs, TRIFR and counting … [Read more...] about Looking Forward, Looking Back

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: BBS, lti, paperwork, trifr

The Safetyization of Normal Life

November 10, 2018 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

The Safetyization of Normal Life One of the delusions of safetyism is the naive belief that safetyism works for normal fallible people. One of the delusions of Zeroism is the idiocy of speaking … [Read more...] about The Safetyization of Normal Life

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: hypersafety, safety 1, safety 2, safetyism, trifr

TRIFR Safety Zombies

December 4, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

TRIFR Safety Zombies The surge in interest in the zombie phenomena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie) across media, social media, movies and literature is extensive. The zombie apocalypse … [Read more...] about TRIFR Safety Zombies

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Statistics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: litfr, trifr, Zero Harm, zombie

Courage to Challenge the Great TRIFR and LTIFR Delusion

November 29, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Courage to Challenge the Great TRIFR and LTIFR Delusion It was Marx (The German Ideology) who said ‘as individuals express their life, so they are’. At the heart of this aphorism is the idea that … [Read more...] about Courage to Challenge the Great TRIFR and LTIFR Delusion

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Statistics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: delusion, lti, LTIFR, trifr

The Bradbury Effect, BP Syndrome and TRIFR Stats

November 3, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 17 Comments

The Bradbury Effect, BP Syndrome and TRIFR Stats Everyone knows the story about Stephen Bradbury and his gold medal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYUjmEH9NNk). Here is the Aussie running last in … [Read more...] about The Bradbury Effect, BP Syndrome and TRIFR Stats

Filed Under: Safety Statistics, Zero Harm Tagged With: fundamental attribution error, trifr, Zero Harm

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