It’s always amusing to see Safety throw language about with no meaning such as ‘revolutionary’, ‘visionary’, ‘trailblazer’ and ‘thought leader’. This is the language one uses when traditional Safety talks to traditional Safety about traditional safety. Apparently, one is a ‘visionary trailblazer’ … [Read more...] about Meaningless Non-Vision in Safety
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Safe Work Australia a Vision for No Vision
When an industry is bogged down in engineering, behaviourism and zero, it is unlikely there will be any vision. Nothing is more crippling to vision that the toxicity of zero vision, the global safety mantra. We see this lack of vision in the recent release of the so-called ‘Australian Work Health … [Read more...] about Safe Work Australia a Vision for No Vision
Data Cannot Drive Vision
We know that the things in life that we cannot count, count the most. We also know that the things we measure that don’t count are attributed with value when there is none. Numerics are not neutral but are attributed with meaning determined by one’s worldview. Most of the things that Safety counts … [Read more...] about Data Cannot Drive Vision
Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk
Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk (280 pages, 200 Illustrations) Dr Long is pleased to announce publication of Book 9 in the series on Risk: Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk You can download the book for sale at $19.95 here: Buy Envisioning Risk, Seeing, … [Read more...] about Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk
Goals and Vision in Safety
Goals and Vision in Safety Safety is the industry of lower order goals (see Figure 1. Goal States). Safety functions under the false slogan ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. It chooses to ignore a much better aphorism and that is: ‘you can’t count what counts’. We have known for a long … [Read more...] about Goals and Vision in Safety
Defining Safety
A comment to a blog recently by Kevin Jones stated: ‘……issues that OHS usually does not engage with, such as staff resourcing, production timelines, lack of appropriate training and knowledge and more. How can the OHS profession affect changes in these areas? Should we become social activists on … [Read more...] about Defining Safety
Vision for Safety in Australia
Vision for safety in Australia By George Robotham I am in the final stages of preparing what will end up being an approx. 70 page e book on What It Means To Be An OHS Professional. I was thinking of finishing up with the following: My vision for what an excellent approach to OHS in Australia … [Read more...] about Vision for Safety in Australia