• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

SafetyRisk.net

Humanising Health, Safety and Risk

  • Home
    • About
      • Privacy Policy
      • Contact
  • FREE
    • Slogans
      • Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time
      • When Slogans Don’t Work
      • CLASSIC, FAMOUS and INFAMOUS SAFETY QUOTES
      • 500 of THE MOST EFFECTIVE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2024
      • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
      • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
      • Safety Acronyms and Buzzwords
      • You know Where You Can Stick Your Safety Slogans
      • Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple
      • Spanish Safety Slogans – Consignas de seguridad
      • Safety Slogans List
      • Road Safety Slogans 2024
      • How to write your own safety slogans
      • Why Are Safety Slogans Important
      • Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
      • 40 Free Safety Slogans For the Workplace
      • Safety Slogans for Work
    • FREE SAFETY eBOOKS
    • Free Hotel and Resort Risk Management Checklist
    • FREE DOWNLOADS
    • TOP 50
    • FREE RISK ASSESSMENT FORMS
    • Find a Safety Consultant
    • Free Safety Program Documents
    • Psychology Of Safety
    • Safety Ideas That Work
    • HEALTH and SAFETY MANUALS
    • FREE SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENT RESOURCES
    • Whats New In Safety
    • FUN SAFETY STUFF
    • Health and Safety Training
    • SAFETY COURSES
    • Safety Training Needs Analysis and Matrix
    • Top 20 Safety Books
    • This Toaster Is Hot
    • Free Covid-19 Toolbox Talks
    • Download Page – Please Be Patient With Larger Files…….
    • SAFETY IMAGES, Photos, Unsafe Pictures and Funny Fails
    • How to Calculate TRIFR, LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators
    • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat
  • Social Psychology Of Risk
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Safety Psychology Terminology
    • Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk – Prof Karl E. Weick
    • The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
    • Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk
    • The Psychology of Conversion – 20 Tips to get Started
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety
    • Psychology and safety
    • The Psychology of Safety
    • Hot Toaster
    • TALKING RISK VIDEOS
    • WHAT IS SAFETY
    • THE HOT TOASTER
    • THE ZERO HARM DEBATE
    • SEMIOTICS
    • LEADERSHIP
  • Dr Long Posts
    • ALL POSTS
    • Learning Styles Matter
    • There is no Hierarchy of Controls
    • Scaffolding, Readiness and ZPD in Learning
    • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
    • Presentation Tips for Safety People
    • Dialogue Do’s and Don’ts
    • It’s Only a Symbol
    • Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
    • Zero is Unethical
    • First Report on Zero Survey
    • There is No Objectivity, Deal With it!
  • THEMES
    • Psychosocial Safety
    • Resilience
    • Risk Myths
    • Safety Myths
    • Safety Culture Silences
    • Safety Culture
    • Psychological Health and Safety
    • Zero Harm
    • Due Diligence
  • Free Learning
    • Introduction to SPoR – Free
    • FREE RISK and SAFETY EBOOKS
    • FREE ebook – Guidance for the beginning OHS professional
    • Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
    • Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
  • Psychosocial Safety
    • What is Psychosocial Safety
    • Psychological Safety
      • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
      • Managing psychosocial hazards at work
      • Psychological Safety – has it become the next Maslow’s hammer?
      • What is Psychosocial Safety
      • Psychological Safety Slogans and Quotes
      • What is Psychological Safety?
      • Understanding Psychological Terminology
      • Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
      • Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
      • It’s not weird – it’s a psychological safety initiative!

worksafe

How Not to View Mental Health and Safety

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

How Not to View Mental Health and Safety The latest animated promo from Worksafe Victoria is yet another classic fail when it comes to understanding and tackling mental health. Why is it that Safety continues to go to dumb animations and semiotics that convey the opposite message for what is … [Read more...] about How Not to View Mental Health and Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: worksafe, wrokwell

Psychosocial Controls and Measures for Who?

August 2, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The fixation and psychosis of the safety industry with ‘controls’ and ‘measures’ creates the delusion that psychosocial issues can be controlled and measured. When it comes to psychosocial issues, the last thing that helps is quantitative language and simplistic mythology. And the latest Worksafe … [Read more...] about Psychosocial Controls and Measures for Who?

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, ALARP, Psychological Safety, Psychosocial Controls, Stress, worksafe

Ummm, More Dumb

February 8, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Ummm, More Dumb Safety In the good old tradition of safety irrelevance, we have one more furry icon to add to the repertoire of Meerkats, broken eggs, pickles, hazardmen, sexy sophie, mum’s for safety and a host of dumb ideas cajoled into the marketing of safety … [Read more...] about Ummm, More Dumb

Filed Under: Robert Long, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: umm, worksafe

The Medium is The Message

August 30, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The Medium is The Message We’ve known for over 50 years that the Medium is the Message . It matters how you transport the message as much as what message it is which you wish to transport. And if the medium contradicts the message, it’s the message of the medium that sticks not the text of the … [Read more...] about The Medium is The Message

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Robert Long Tagged With: medium, pickled, unconscious communicaton, worksafe

Bedwetters Anonymous

September 25, 2018 by Bernard Corden Leave a Comment

Bedwetters Anonymous All professions are conspiracies against the laity George Bernard Shaw 1 The recent resources boom across Australasia involved construction of major gas projects throughout Queensland, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea. This created an unprecedented … [Read more...] about Bedwetters Anonymous

Filed Under: Safety Professional Tagged With: nsca, sia, worksafe

Safety Spud Heads Will Love This

November 24, 2014 by Admin 6 Comments

Safety Spud Heads Will Love This A reader  just sent me this article from ZDNET – Unbelievable! Just shows the battle that the band of merry people have ahead of us against the Kings and their Sheriffs. If you don't understand people and safety then the obvious answer, of course, is to spend a … [Read more...] about Safety Spud Heads Will Love This

Filed Under: Safety Software, Safety Statistics Tagged With: analysis resources, safety spuds, statistics, worksafe

WHS Harmonisation Update

December 3, 2013 by Safety Nerd Leave a Comment

Another great post by the Safety Nerd: Where the bloody hell are you? Posted on December 3, 2011 by The Safety Nerd Okay, so there was a lot of who-ha relating to the rush to the starting blocks being 1st January 2011 for these new WHS laws, but quite a few of the states at the eleventh hour … [Read more...] about WHS Harmonisation Update

Filed Under: Safety Legislation Tagged With: harmonisation, WHS, worksafe

Worksafe Releases Helpful New Manual Handling Video

June 28, 2013 by Admin 1 Comment

Worksafe Releases New Manual Handling Video – No Sprains, Big Gains Manual Handling has always been one of the most important concern in the workplace and although these injuries don't spill any blood, they are the most long term and costly to deal with. I am still amazed at how people think it is … [Read more...] about Worksafe Releases Helpful New Manual Handling Video

Filed Under: Safety Training, Safety Videos Tagged With: Manual Handling, perform, safety video, worksafe

Dangerous Machines

September 3, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

Dangerous Machines WorkSafe has begun a campaign to raise industry awareness of the hazards associated with using certain types of dangerous machines and to promote WorkSafe’s new online plant registration system. Download the flyer: [download id="196"] Over the next 12 months, across all … [Read more...] about Dangerous Machines

Filed Under: Construction Safety Tagged With: construction, dangerous machines, Hazard Alerts, Machine Guarding, worksafe

Where is the Mothership?

September 3, 2012 by Safety Nerd 2 Comments

Where is the Mothership? Latest rant by Sarah Jane (Safety Nerd) from Riskology Consulting. See it here: http://riskologyconsulting.com.au/where-is-the-mothership/ As a Safety Professional, the harmonisation of OHS laws recently have become more of a minefield than harmonised, employers don’t … [Read more...] about Where is the Mothership?

Filed Under: Safety Leadership, Safety Legislation Tagged With: OHS harmonisation, safety professional, worksafe

Primary Sidebar

Search and Discover More on this Site

RECOMMENDED READING

Never miss a post - Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,177 other subscribers.

FREE eBOOK DOWNLOADS

Recent Comments

  • Rob Long on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Admin on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Rob Long on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Admin on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Kieren Aubrey on Electronic Risk Score Calculator
  • Rob Long on Safety is NOT a Duty
  • Rosa@carrilloconsultants.com on Safety is NOT a Duty
  • Rob Long on Is It That Hard to Ask?
  • Sherralynne Smith on Is It That Hard to Ask?
  • Rob Long on Is It That Hard to Ask?

viral post – iso 45003 and what it cannot do

Introduction to SPOR – FREE!!

NEW! Free Download

Please take our 2 minute zero survey