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Good Luck to the Luck Deniers

LTIFR

Everyone knows that to be successful at gambling you rely on knowing the odds, taking risk and LOTS of luck! Same with everything we do in life and at work. The ZERO HARM advocates think they can control or supress everything, including risk, luck and human fallibility. But how many LTIFR free periods are the [...]

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Effective evaluation of an organisation’s OHS performance

George Robotham

Effective evaluation of an organisation’s OHS performance Article by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au See all of George’s unique takes on OHS here: george-robotham I was asked to write about this topic and I am not confident I have a good response. I am aware my ideas about this topic will be different from many others. [...]

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Cleopatra’s Nose, Circumstance and Predictability

Behaviour Based Safety

Cleopatra’s Nose, Circumstance and Predictability Another really enjoyable and thought provoking article by Dr Robert Long. Love the analogy of measuring safety performance by LTI as being like measuring effective parenting based on the number of smacks administered! Rob’s new book "For the Love of Zero: Human fallibility and Risk”  is due out in Oct/Nov [...]

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The Blame Game

Behaviour Based Safety

The Blame Game Far too many people involved in OHS, including some OHS people, spend too much time playing the blame game. When you pick up the newspaper and listen to the television or radio you will find terms like driver error, human error and pilot error used frequently as if this was the definitive [...]

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The Last Stick Wasn’t Big Enough

Behaviour Based Safety

The Last Stick Wasn’t Big Enough Article by Rob Long in response to a recent newspaper article about the need for more vigilance and compliance!!!! We hear a great deal in the safety industry about compliance and coercion but so little about creative solutions with a sense of imagination. Every time there is another event [...]

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Do You Believe in Good and Bad Luck?

Behaviour Based Safety

Dr Rob has been a bit quiet of late as he has been busy finishing his second book ‘For the Love of Zero; Human Fallibility and Risk’, due out in October – Me and many, many others cannot wait for that!!! This article is an absolute doozy and is a selection from the book as [...]

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OHS 2012 Where Are We Now?

George Robotham

George Robotham reflects back over the changes, or lack there of, in the last 11 years. Comments and criticisms are bound be many and are totally encouraged. Be warned, no punches have been pulled! Quote: “Many of the people who work in OHS are strongly locked into traditional approaches and have difficulty accepting new ideas. [...]

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Positive Performance Indicators

George Robotham

Positive Performance Indicators – The better way of measuring safety performance? By George Robotham – see more of George’s work here: 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 [...]

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The 15 Major Impediments To OHS Success

George Robotham

The 15 Major Impediments To OHS Success George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE HERE By George Robotham www.ohschange.com.au   1 Lack of succinct paperwork. There is not much point in having detailed paperwork that is too much like hard work to read. The OHS world is famous for long ponderous paper work that no one reads, [...]

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Scale of the Universe–Cool Tool

LTIFR

Scale of the Universe–Cool Tool Not exactly safety related but this will keep a bored safety professional occupied for hours! Take a break from calculating LTIFR to 3 decimal places and check this out……..Scroll in and out from the smallest know thing (quantum foam? at 0.000000001 yoctometers) to the edge of the observable universe and [...]

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Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate

LTIFR

George’s Safety Reflections – More Pearls of Wisdom Here Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate The Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate is the principal measure of safety performance in many companies in Australia. The definition of L.T.I.F.R. is the number of Lost Time Injuries multiplied by 1 million divided by the number of manhours worked in [...]

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How to Calculate LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators

Accidents

How to Calculate LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators By Tom Gardener Knowing how to calculate LTIFR and other safety indicators is an important skill to have if you work in the health and safety field. Despite the fact that these indicators don’t reveal a great deal of useful information managers love them and [...]

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