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Talking Risk Videos – Humanising Workers Compensation

May 22, 2015 by Rob Sams 2 Comments

Humanising Workers Compensation – Conversation on the Couch with Rob and James

imageIn 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 compensation and how it dis-empowers injured workers by removing their choices and hinders their recovery. In fact the traditional system can actually induce what James calls “secondary Injury”. The guys discus the more successful approach of “meeting” and listening to and engaging people rather than just “processing” them.

Humanising Workers Compensation – James & Rob from Conversations on the Couch on Vimeo.

Humanising Workers Compensation Part 2- James & Rob from Conversations on the Couch on Vimeo.

 

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Rob is an experienced safety and people professional, having worked in a broad range of industries and work environments, including manufacturing, professional services (building and facilities maintenance), healthcare, transport, automotive, sales and marketing. He is a passionate leader who enjoys supporting people and organizations through periods of change. Rob specializes in making the challenges of risk and safety more understandable in the workplace. He uses his substantial skills and formal training in leadership, social psychology of risk and coaching to help organizations understand how to better manage people, risk and performance. Rob builds relationships and "scaffolds" people development and change so that organizations can achieve the meaningful goals they set for themselves. While Rob has specialist knowledge in systems, his passion is in making systems useable for people and organizations. In many ways, Rob is a translator; he interprets the complex language of processes, regulations and legislation into meaningful and practical tasks. Rob uses his knowledge of social psychology to help people and organizations filter the many pressures they are made anxious about by regulators and various media. He is able to bring the many complexities of systems demands down to earth to a relevant and practical level.

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