Work Method Statements Archives

July 19, 2015July 19, 2015

Work Method Statement Development Guide

Oh dear……. this guide may excite some safety people and have given the developers a warm fuzzy feeling but it’s missing some crucial components – can you tell me what they are? Download the Guide Here Work Method Statement Guide… Read the rest

April 4, 2015April 4, 2015

Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists

A checklist for checking your use of checklists 🙂 Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists See also: Making Objects Safe or People Safe (Dr Rob Long), Risk is About People, not just Objects (Rob Sams) Whilst value of checklists is well… Read the rest

January 9, 2015October 4, 2016

Safety’s for sale and so is toilet paper!

It hit the fan when Gab Carlton published Where To Put the Port-a-loo is a Hazard!. I wonder if there will be the same gut reaction to Keith McCabe’s latest post on LinkedIn Pulse or do “Toilet Safety Police” really have… Read the rest

November 26, 2014June 6, 2015

Swimming Up Stream and the SWMS Dilemma

Refer also to: The Arse-Covering Myth Swimming Up Stream and the Safe Work Method Statement Dilemma I was with an organisation this week that was being inspected by the regulator. The regulator had the unenviable task of assessing whether… Read the rest

July 26, 2014June 22, 2018

The Seduction to Simplify Safety

The Seduction to Simplify Safe Work Method Statements Everyone knows that we are already in an age of excess in safety. This is the dilemma of optimisation. Some now talk about ‘ultra-safety’ organisations and wonder how much more they can… Read the rest

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