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What Makes a Safety Management System Fly

What Makes a Safety Management System Fly One of the most popular articles by the late George Robotham – download his free E-Books HERE Original published by the American Society of Safety Engineers, International Safety Best-Practice Specialty Newsletter, Spring 2002,Vol.1, No.3, incorporated in a subject of a OHS course at the University of New Brunswick,… Read More What Makes a Safety Management System Fly

May 11, 2014 adminLeave a comment

How OHS people can maintain their motivation

How OHS people can maintain their motivation Classic post by the late George Robotham In my 38 years involvement in OHS I have been lied to by various people, have lost count of the number of times I have been called an idiot or worse, have had promises made that were never fulfilled, dealt with… Read More How OHS people can maintain their motivation

May 10, 2014 adminLeave a comment

New Safety Award to Honour George Robotham

New Safety Award to Honour the late George Robotham Regular readers of this blog would know what a prolific writer and excellent communicator the late George Robotham was. We were flooded by hundreds of condolence messages from people he has helped, both personally and via his writing, during his career. George will be remembered as… Read More New Safety Award to Honour George Robotham

May 9, 2014 adminLeave a comment

25 Ways to stuff up a Safety Management System

Today is probably the most important national occasion in Australia and NZ. ANZAC Day – 25 April – marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The day our combined forces landed on the beaches at Gallipoli in 1915 to capture the… Read More 25 Ways to stuff up a Safety Management System

April 25, 2014 adminLeave a comment

Why OHS People Become Cynics

This article was written a year or so ago by the late great George Robotham but never published. There has been a lot of debate lately about whether cynicism and scepticism regarding safety is healthy or toxic (See four indicators of toxic safety culture). I think then it is time for George’s perspective to be… Read More Why OHS People Become Cynics

January 27, 2014 adminLeave a comment

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