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What is Psychosocial Safety

What is Psychosocial Safety? Another provocative article by Dr Robert Long – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Psychosocial safety is really not a new concept but has been around industry for some time. The beginnings of psychosocial safety are usually linked to Herbert W. Heinrich an [...]

Access to earthmoving equipment

Mining Safety

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE’S WORK HERE Access to earthmoving equipment A highly practical safety project in the early 1990’s was the Access to Earthmoving Equipment project. Work required included: v Carrying out a literature review; v Thorough statistical analysis of company accident data v Developing a check-list to assess access systems; v [...]

Analysis of “Accident” experience

Accident Investigation

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE’S WORK HERE Analysis of “Accident” experience Many organisations analyse their “Accident” experience in the hope of gaining insight into how to prevent their problems. Most organisations will not have sufficient serious “Accident” experience to make statistically significant determinations. 1. Damage to people at work has a number of [...]

Commercial Safety Management Systems

Safety Management Plan

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE’S WORK HERE Commercial Safety Management Systems No doubt there are commercial safety managements systems that add value to organisation’s safety effort but I experienced one that was a disaster. The introduction of the overseas S.M.S. was led aggressively by senior management despite a workshop of safety staff rejecting [...]

New ONE-COVER Cable Tape

cable covers

New ONE-COVER Cable Tape ONE-COVER Cable Tape is a revolutionary new product that allows you to easily cover cords and cables on carpeted surfaces without the use of adhesives. It grips any loop pile carpeted surface, uses no glues or adhesives, is easily cut to length, is reusable 1000’s of times, is 100% recyclable and [...]

Free Safety Resource

Articles

Free Safety Resource – International Labour Organization’s Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety This link was brought to our attention by a reader – thanks Mike. This is an enormous volume and body of safety knowledge and pretty heavy going at times. But, as a resource for safety and risk management info, probably second to [...]

What’s Wrong With This Photo

Hazard Identification

What’s Wrong With This Photo – Spot the Hazards Each issue of WorkSafe™ Magazine includes a safety photo that has been staged to show a number of hazards or potentially dangerous work practices. The online version is highly interactive and includes ability to place pins and comments onto the photo and print the results. Could [...]

A Formula for Safety Culture Failure and Success

Robert Long

A Formula for Safety Culture Failure and Success Another provocative article by Dr Robert Long – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE I find it fascinating to read many uses of the word ‘culture’ and ‘risk’ that have no complementary reference to people. Even when there is [...]

Types of Safety Advisers

Safety Culture

TYPING SAFETY ADVISORS – 2 Minute Read New Article on GenWhyAsk Extract: Along my professional path I have being exposed to more and more fellow Safety Advisors and its becoming more apparent the great divide between us. In my opinion we can generally be slotted into one of two categories Type A or Type B… [...]

Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk

Robert Long

Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Safety walks, observations and conversations are foundational to managing safety in organisations. Site walks, office walks or whatever you want to call them are a critical [...]

A safety guide for tourists

Travel Safety

A safety guide for tourists Guest Post Going on holiday abroad or at home is usually an enjoyable, incident-free time. It is important, however, to know what to do in an emergency. Here are some useful tips to ensure you have peace of mind when going on holiday. Check your Documentation is in Order Don’t [...]

Job Safety Analysis Forms

JHA

Job Safety Analysis Forms If you are looking to introduce professional looking and very comprehensive Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Forms you’ll find them at Kalamazoo. They can be fully customised including your company logo, various colours, sizes and paper types including carbonless papers, bonds, weather and tear resistant papers – very impressive! They also have [...]

Safety Considerations to take when working with Metals

Construction Safety

Safety Considerations to take when working with Metals Guest Post Most tools, appliances, equipment and many other items have metal as part of their construction. This is because, metal has all the qualities to keep places and items strong and stable at all times. This makes metal a precious resource to work with and use [...]

Introducing a Harmonised OHS Management System

Harmonisation

Introducing a Harmonised OHS Management System Guest article by George Robotham (contact details below) Quotable Quote "A health & safety problem can be described by statistics but cannot be understood by statistics. It can only be understood by knowing and feeling the pain, anguish, and depression and shattered hopes of the victim and of wives, [...]

A Few Safety Tips

Safety Tips

Discover How to Keep the Safety Headache Away Guest Post There are many places of work that are considered dangerous. Basically, a dangerous place of work has higher risks than normal places of work and also the potential for an accident happening that will cause loss of life or limb is much higher. For companies [...]

Safety Awareness Test

Safe Behaviour

Safety Awareness Test

Home Safety Audits

Home Safety

Doing Home Audits like Industrial Audits Guest Post Conducting an industrial audit in any workplace produces apprehension for both workers and top management. This is because; industrial audits are rigorous and have very high expectations. Furthermore, any company owner would like their place of work to pass their annual audit with flying colors. When the [...]

Safety Culture Sinks Ships

Robert Long

See all the amazing photos here: http://cryptome.org/2012-info/costa-concordia/0041.htm Culture not Rocks Sink Ships Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE These amazing photos of the Costa Concordia are a stark reminder that poor safety culture sinks ships. The picture of the [...]

Deepwater Horizon Fire Photos

Fire Safety

Exclusive Photos taken by a Safety Pro of the Deepwater Horizon Fire and Clean Up from http://www.safetyphoto.co.uk SEE THEM ALL HERE

Risk and Safety Maturity

Risk Management

Risk and Safety Maturity Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE There are many programs which advertise about ‘safety leadership’ and ‘safety culture’ but advocate little more than tightening up systems, vigilance in policing and raising penalties for non-compliance. Whilst systems, policing and compliance [...]

Safety of Young Workers

Workcover

WorkCover reminded businesses to ensure safety of young workers – The unsaid implications This recent news story caught my eye, and with a large percentage of companies returning to work on Monday I thought it was important to share it with you. In our experience these ‘reminders’ are thinly disguised warnings. There is no question [...]

Working in Remote Locations Procedure

Safety Procedures

Working in Remote Locations Procedure A well written and very useful procedure provided by Tracey Cameron from Everything OHS Extract: Field activities in rural and remote locations form an essential part of work at ‘insert business name’s. Field work may be required in unfamiliar and remote surroundings which pose various hazards. These Procedures outline necessary [...]

Safety Culture Program Essentials

Robert Long

Safety Culture Program Essentials Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Now is the time of the year when people begin to think of rebooting or starting up a safety culture program. The concept of safety culture is so overworked yet so poorly defined. [...]

Audiometric testing under new laws

Audiometric

Audiometric testing under new laws Query from a reader – I hope someone can assist: Hi, Unsure of where to post to, but I was hoping that someone could offer some assistance. The Work Health & Safety regulation 2011 in relation to noise says that we need to undertake audiometric testing for a worker … [...]

Risk Ignorance and Risk Arrogance

Incident Investigation

Risk Ignorance and Risk Arrogance, Flip Sides of the Same Coin Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE We spend a high level of energy in safety training under the assumption that the audience is ignorant. This is what we might call ‘risk ignorance’. [...]

Safety Fundamentalism

Behaviour Based Safety

Is there such a thing as safety fundamentalism? Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series:CLICK HERE The concept of fundamentalism was originally coined in reference to a rigid theological movement in the USA in 1905 upholding the literal interpretation of the Bible. More generally, fundamentalism [...]

The Challenging Psychology of Ergonomics

Ergonomic Assessment and Evaluation

The Challenging Psychology of Ergonomics Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE One of the most comprehensive textbooks on ergonomics is by Kroemer and Grandjean Fitting the Task to the Human. The title in itself captures the essence of ergonomics. Ergonomics is all [...]

OHS and your own health

Health

OHS = Occupational Health and Safety so lets talk about your health A lot of us are out there preaching about occupational health and safety but do we practice what we preach? The message to the workforce kind of loses its impact if the people selling it are overweight and stressed out. Here are some [...]

Safeguard your home

Electrical Safety

Safeguard your home Guest Post Are you aware how many people are killed in Australia every year as a result of electrical fires, and there are thousands more people who are seriously injured? Roaches and termites are some of the most destructive pests on the planet, and they have done more than $5 billion in damages to [...]

Cautions in eLearning Safety

Online Induction

I have long been concerned about the warm fuzzy feeling employers get from providing online, generic safety inductions, particularly for contractors who are then let loose in the workplace. Another great article from Dr Robert Long If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Cautions in eLearning Safety How can I know what [...]

Practical Guide to the new Work Health and Safety Act

Harmonisation

Practical Guide to the new Work Health and Safety Act Workcover have just released this very simple and practical guide to help you understand your obligations under the new Harmonised Work Health and Safety Act. Download Here:

Job Hazard Analysis

JHA

Job Hazard Analysis – Aligning Human Performance Improvement Concepts With Hazard Analysis By James Roughton and Nathan Crutchfield In recent discussions and reading on Human Performance Improvement (HPI), we have learned about several enhancements that need to be considered for use in the Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) process. Job Hazard Analysis Benefits First, the JHA [...]

Can We Develop a Safety Rule to Prevent Injuries?

Injury Prevention

Can We Develop a Safety Rule to Prevent Injuries? By James Roughton In a recent research for a new project that I am working on, I came across several things that got me thinking about Management Commitment and wanted to share my thoughts with everyone. What I have found from research and experience, that in [...]

Safety Conversation Essentials – 20 Tips

Harmonisation

Safety Conversation Essentials – 20 Tips Another brilliant guest article by Dr Robert Long from www.humandymensions.com If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE In our preoccupation with harmonization, systems and the new WHS Act I trust we don’t lose sight of the most powerful instrument we have to manage risk – the [...]

Crunchy Numbers

Safety Blogs

Crunchy numbers Some recent trivia about this site from our web hosts: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 23 sold-out events for that many people to see it. In 2011, there were 506 new [...]

The Rage for Safety Utopia

Robert Long

The Rage for Safety Utopia Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE This is the title of the stirring book by Ronal Conway published in 1992 but I have added the word safety to the title. Conway argues that obsession and compulsion for Utopia [...]

Health and Safety Tips for Warehouse and Retail Industries

Forklift Safety

Health and Safety Tips for Warehouse and Retail Industries Guest Post Most of the accidents that occur in the warehouse and retail industry in the UK can be prevented if proper health and safety regulations are followed. In the UK more than 2,300 warehouse injuries are reported each year, although the actual figure could be [...]

Safe Driving in Fog

Road Safety

Safe Driving in Fog Guest Post Fog can create dangerous road conditions but being prepared can help you avoid accidents. The most hazardous thing about driving in the fog is the reduced visibility. Fog is actually made up of tiny water droplets that are suspended in the air. To help you stay safe in the [...]

Zero Harm

Robert Long

What’s the Issue with the language of Zero? Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Leaders and researchers know that language and discourse are critical elements of cultural formation. The research (John Bargh) shows that how we “pitch” our message, “frame” our message and [...]

Non-Compliance and the Ten Fundamentals of Motivation

Robert Long

Non-Compliance and the Ten Fundamentals of Motivation Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE Why do people not do as they are told? When all the rules, codes of practice and standards in safety are clear and the procedures are plain, why do people [...]

Effectiveness in Managing Risk and Cultural Change

Risk Management

Effectiveness in Managing Risk and Cultural Change The need to change safety culture Another guest post by Dr Robert Long – If you loved this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE In recent times it has occurred to coroner’s at inquests, auditors and government (eg. Cole Commission) that poor safety culture has a central role [...]

Keep Our Future Safe Over Xmas

Child Safety

Keep Our Future Safe Over Xmas A timely reminder to keep a close eye on Australia’s future – our kids – to make sure they have a safe Xmas & New Year. Aiden (almost 4) is wearing a hiviz vest by Proskill/Mascot child range of workwear, Blundstone boots, Hard Yakka overalls, Bolle child size [...]

Dangerous Goods Training

Dangerous Goods

Dangerous Goods Training: Industry News And Updates Guest Post Dangerous goods are defined as any substance that poses a significant risk to health, safety, or property when transported by land, sea, or air. Due to the risks that dangerous goods pose to the public welfare, shipping of these goods needs to be firmly regulated. Such [...]

Food Safety Supervisor Training

Food Safety

Food Safety Supervisor Training: New Laws and Problems For Those Without Certification In NSW Food businesses in NSW must now have a certified food safety supervisor (FSS) on staff. The NSW food authority has deemed it appropriate and mandatory that all food safety supervisors in NSW have a FSS certificate after undergoing training from a [...]

Home Renovation Reality Shows Could Raise Awareness And Encourage Asbestos Training

Asbestos

Home Renovation Reality Shows Could Raise Awareness And Encourage Asbestos Training Guest Post In October this year Labor senator Lisa Singh addressed parliament about her concern that reality television shows that showed people how to do their own home renovations may be putting thousands of people who view the show at risk for asbestos exposure. [...]

Leadership in safety – Trust

Safety Leadership

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE”S WORK HERE Leadership in safety – Trust If people do not trust those leading safety change there will never be wholehearted adoption of the leaders approach. People may agree to the leaders face but do little to advance the leaders ideas, innovative ways to sabotage the leader quite [...]

Leadership in safety-Ethics

Safety Leadership

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE”S WORK HERE Leadership in safety – Ethics I do not want to comment on the moral issues but it is fair to say the Monica business got American President, Bill Clinton, a lot of bad press. While I am not a student of American politics I am told [...]

Implementation of a learning management system

Safety Reflections

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE”S WORK HERE Implementation of a learning management system In the early 1990’s XYZ mining company revolutionised their approach to learning. I was heavily involved in this work in my role as Senior Safety Adviser in the Brisbane-based corporate OHS department. 1 Existing learning programs were examined and costed, [...]

Cold Weather Safety Tips for Your Car

Cold Work

Cold Weather Safety Tips for Your Car Guest post for our Northern Hemisphere readers When a freak snowstorm hit Oklahoma in March 2009, residents were caught unawares. Oklahoma usually doesn’t get much snow during the winter—much less the spring—so people weren’t prepared for such extreme weather. State highways, interstates, and turnpikes were closed by order [...]

A Highly Deserving Safety Award Recipient

Safety Training

A Highly Deserving Safety Award Recipient A little while ago we wrote about a Safety Legend, Alan Newey, from Chat Safety. Alan was horrifically injured in a work place accident some 10 years ago. He lost his arm and then endured 7 years of rehabilitation. Instead of sitting around feeling sorry for himself, Alan now [...]

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