Dumb Down Safety, Wowserism in the 21st Century Despite the backlash against ‘elf ‘n safety’ in both the UK and Australia (eg. Brown and Hanlon In The Interests of Safety; Tim Gill , No Fear and Long, Risk Makes Sense the Victorian regulator continues to show just why people hate safety. Safety has become the… Read More Dumb Down Safety, Wowserism in the 21st Century ⋆ Safety Risk
Introducing our latest awesome Author: James Ellis from The Framework Group Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War? Every day we make decisions based on insufficient information, informed by our biases and shortcuts, which ironically, we’re also ignorant to. Even in the google and wikipedia enhanced era of information technology, oversimplification constantly… Read More Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War? – SafetyRisk dot net
Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple One of the most annoying things about social media, especially Linkedin (as its intention is to be professional), is the constant flooding of the airwaves with the quest to be simple. The most recent was this: Whilst I understand the quest to keep life simple, the denial… Read More Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple – SafetyRisk dot net
An informed culture learns by means of ongoing debate and constantly shifting discrepancies – Karl E. Weick (2007) Culture to go…… Delivering results now! Organisations interested in cultural change need to think about, and understand their existing culture, then work hard over time to move toward a culture that they desire. Organisations can… Read More Culture To Go – Delivering Results Now! – SafetyRisk dot net
People Power–Would The Safety Monster Approve of This? Stirling Station, Perth, Western Australia. A man boarding a train slips down the gap (right next to the warning sign!) and gets stuck. While authorities scratched their heads and worked out what to do, people power took over and rescued the man in minutes, the… Read More People Power–Would The Safety Monster Approve of This? – SafetyRisk dot net