I had to have a laugh when I read this pseudo-research on zero (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022437524001178 ). One thing is most certain. If you want critical research that considers ethical and moral meaning, don’t ask Safety. The paper starts out assuming there is some kind of ‘debate’ about zero. No, there is no debate about zero. Zero… Read More How Do You Know Zero Doesn’t Work

Originally posted on October 31, 2014 @ 8:54 AM With the subtlety sledgehammer, Dr Rob Long knocks the unattainable, meaningless ideas and slogans like “Zero Harm” and “Safety First” right on the noggin! Read more of his articles here “Cultures that strategically know their silences are more sophisticated than cultures that fill the airwaves with… Read More Silences in Safety – SafetyRisk.net

Originally posted on October 27, 2014 @ 11:08 PM When You Don’t Know About Safety Hire a Marketing Agency It seems to be the trend that when you don’t know about safety you engage a marketing agency. This is certainly the case with Melbourne Metro (Dumb Ways to Die) and with Worksafe ACT (Hazardman). The… Read More When You Don’t Know About Safety Hire a Marketing Agency

One can declare something a ‘virtue’, ‘principle’ or ‘professional’, but it doesn’t make it so. Safety is NOT at the top of some hierarchy of concocted values made up by Safety. Safety has no right to over-ride the rights of others or their culture just because it loves to claim such power. Yet, this is… Read More Making Things Safe is Not Necessarily a Virtue