Is telling scary stories a good way to make people safer?

2021-02-04T08:02:50+10:00

Is telling scary stories a good way to make people safer? I, tell stories about accidents. I tell stories about disasters because telling stories of disasters is much more fun at parties than telling stories about risk assessments.The underlying deep reason I do it is because I want people to understand the complexity of accidents. To understand that not that it could be you, but the people who have accidents are not evil people, are not people who don’t care. They are people living and experiencing their work when disaster strikes.There’s an opposite darker side [...]

What are the different types of Safety Work?

2021-02-04T07:59:51+10:00

What are the different types of Safety Work? SHOW NOTES,There was a time I was using this distinction between in-surance – making things safer. Assurance – telling people its safer. And that is difficult and confusing mainly because insurance is a made-up word. The way we like to talk about it now is.There’s different types of safety-work.There’s demonstrated safety.Which is stuff that you do to show other people that you’re safe. And that’s necessary for business. Business can only survive if your clients and your customers and your regulators think that you’re safe. And there [...]

How can the H O P principles and focus on learning be incorporated into traditional methods?

2021-02-04T07:52:41+10:00

How can the H.O.P. principles and focus on learning be incorporated into traditional methods? SHOW NOTES.The tools themselves that people come up with has very little magic in them. I can give you examples but there is very little magic in them. The process in which people come up with those tools is really important. When people fundamentally understand the concept, it’s within an organization that you start to realize that some of things we have historically done doesn’t match up with the new beliefs. When there is a group of people who feel that [...]

What are the drivers for a lot of Safety Work?

2021-02-04T07:50:57+10:00

What are the drivers for a lot of Safety Work? SHOW NOTES.When you ask someone why they do safety stuff at work, the most common answer is “because I have to”; “because someone is making me do it”. It might be someone outside the organization, maybe a regulator, maybe a client, maybe a perceived need to it. Most often the organization has set up systems to manage safety and those systems are driving work.So, there’s of safety people do which is safety work, audits, risk assessments, take 5’s, procedures, inductions that they do because the [...]

What is Industrial Empathy?

2021-02-04T07:47:06+10:00

What is Industrial Empathy? SHOW NOTES.I first heard about Industrial Empathy from Andrea Baker.She is doing a lot of work in this field too and she and Todd Conklin and I have done a bunch of work together.And she coined that phrase and she said it seemed like as we listen and learn and respect the people that are getting work done and instead of thinking they are the problem to be solved but they are really the ‘problem solver’ as Dekker says.We are creating Industrial Empathy.If I walk a mile in your shoes I [...]

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