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You Spell the Devil L-T-I and God P-P-E

June 15, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

This story by Dr Long would seem totally ludicrous if it weren’t true! We hear these stories every day yet those with the most to gain and the ability to change it are the only ones in fear and denial. I wrote previously about The Safety Revolution or the “Tipping Point” coming but in the context of … [Read more...] about You Spell the Devil L-T-I and God P-P-E

Filed Under: Accidents and Incidents, Robert Long, Safety Statistics, Zero Harm Tagged With: absolutes, lti, ppe

The Rights and Wrongs of Atonement in Safety

June 10, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Safety continues to struggle with the necessity of fallibility (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/fallibility-risk-living-uncertainty/ ) in ALL human orientation and action. In its quest for perfection (zero) traditional Safety obsesses about error and doesn’t know what to do with it. … [Read more...] about The Rights and Wrongs of Atonement in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: atonement, cardinal rules, dekker, repent

Risk and Safety in The Clockwork Universe

June 7, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Risk and Safety in The Clockwork Universe One of the many dilemmas for the risk and safety person is tackling the randomness and uncertainty of life. How can one propose a goal that requires perfect control in a universe that doesn’t operate like clockwork? The idea of the clockwork universe was … [Read more...] about Risk and Safety in The Clockwork Universe

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm

No Reckoning for Zero

June 7, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I watched Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning last night and was not surprised about the repeated use of the words ‘in the blink of an eye’. As the film reached its many crescendos, this phrase, metaphor, idiom and mantra was repeated, just in case the audience forgot its apocalyptic … [Read more...] about No Reckoning for Zero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: blink of an eye

All Accidents Are NOT Preventable on Friday

May 31, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

There is possibly nothing as dumb as the repetition of the dumb slogan in safety: ‘all accidents are preventable’. Where ever you hear it, you know that the level of intelligence in living and being is infinity on the dumb scale. It seems no-one does dumb better than NSW Roads and Transport for … [Read more...] about All Accidents Are NOT Preventable on Friday

Filed Under: Road Safety, Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: all accidents are preventable, fatality free friday

If you truly believe in zero it will happen

May 6, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

If you truly believe in zero it will happen - Safety as Faith Healing Guest post by Dr Rob Long  The logic of faith healing is quite simple: believe in something and if you truly believe and believe enough it will happen. If it doesn’t happen then you don’t believe enough - a wonderful get out … [Read more...] about If you truly believe in zero it will happen

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: faith, Safety, Zero Harm

Safe Work Australia Continues to Perpetuate Safety Mythology

May 4, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Safe Work Australia Continues to Perpetuate Safety Mythology In December 2014 Safe Work Australia published Work Health and Safety Perceptions: Construction Industry. Despite the intentions of the report yet again Safe Work Australia continues to perpetuate safety mythology just as it does by … [Read more...] about Safe Work Australia Continues to Perpetuate Safety Mythology

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: safe work australia, Safety Culture, safety mythology

When The Goal is Zero, Make Sure You Don’t Address Anything Significant

May 3, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Many traffic authorities and road transport groups continue to manufacture the delusions of zero harm (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/zero-the-great-safety-delusion/ ), none more so than Transport for NSW Toward Zero Campaign (https://towardszero.nsw.gov.au/). They have kept up this … [Read more...] about When The Goal is Zero, Make Sure You Don’t Address Anything Significant

Filed Under: Road Safety, Robert Long, Zero Harm

The Harm You Cannot See

April 19, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the most profound deficiencies of the zero-harm cult is its focus on the physical. The zero-vision quest is a quest to count visible injury rates with no expertise to understand the nature of social-psychological and cultural harm. An example of the kind of harm I am talking about was … [Read more...] about The Harm You Cannot See

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: harm, one brain three minds, roblox

It’s Business as Usual in Safety

April 19, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

It’s Business as Usual in Safety Recently the SIA released a report ‘The Business Case for Safe, Healthy and Productive Work’ (Nov 2014). Commissioned by Safe Work Australia and the SIA the work is authored by the International Governance and Performance Research Centre at Macquarie University. The … [Read more...] about It’s Business as Usual in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm

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