Workers Compensation Archives

February 11, 2016June 22, 2018

Difficulties Calculating LTIFR and Other Safety Indicators

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… Read the rest

May 22, 2015May 22, 2015

Talking Risk Videos – Humanising Workers Compensation

Humanising Workers Compensation – Conversation on the Couch with Rob and James In this 2 part video series, a couple of our authors, Rob Sams and James Ellis, have a chat about the dehumanizing discourse in the field of workers… Read the rest

March 11, 2015May 5, 2015

The workers compensation discourse

The workers compensation discourse A friend that I study with visited me recently with his wife. Cheekily, she chastised us for overusing the word ‘discourse’. “Why don’t you just say conversation or talking” she suggested? Almost simultaneously, and defensively, we… Read the rest

March 10, 2015October 4, 2016

Safety then and now, how did we survive?

Great insight by Keith McCabe – just posted on LinkedIn Pulse Safety then and now, how did we survive? People haven’t really changed that much their perception of safe is really much as it’s always been what has changed a… Read the rest

September 4, 2014July 25, 2016

How does collective mindfulness apply to workers compensation?

How does collective mindfulness apply to workers compensation? How do our expectations get us into trouble? Oh, and what is the meaning of life? I’m not so sure which I enjoy most anymore, being right or being wrong? My family,… Read the rest