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FREE ebook – Guidance for the beginning OHS professional

George Robotham

FREE 216 page ebook – “Guidance for the beginning OHS professional” – George Robotham – you can see how awesome his work is here: George’s Reflections UPDATE: Over 3000 copies already sent out! Check out all of George’s FREE EBooks here: Free Safety EBooks Exclusive offer – ONLY for subscribers to this blog

If It Feels Like Blame and Shame…It Is

Behaviour Based Safety

If It Feels Like Blame and Shame…It Is Latest article By Phil La Duke on his blog http://philladuke.wordpress.com/ "One of the chief criticisms of Behaviour-Based Safety, that it blames workers for injuring themselves, isn’t taken all that seriously by its proponents; it should be. Read this article to find out why. And let me [...]

The Biggest Threat To Worker Safety Might Be You and I

As per usual, I started quite a storm with my last post (Time for Safety People to Put Up or Shut Up) and have been hit with a stead barrage of safety professionals that react to my work like felt up prom dates. I am trying to make the point that all is not rosy [...]

Time for Safety People To Step Up Or Shut Up

Time for Safety People To Step Up Or Shut Up New article “A @#$# Storm In Texas” by Phil LaDuke on his blog bound to put some noses out of joint! "There have been three workplace explosions since the one that left a still unknown number of people dead in West, Texas. Safety professionals need [...]

What it means to be an OHS professional

Free Safety Stuff

What it means to be an OHS professional Announcing George Robotham’s latest 100 page FREE E-BOOK – download his others here ABSTRACT and TABLE of CONTENTS CAN BE FOUND AFTER THE IMAGE BELOW. ESSENTIAL READING FOR THOSE STARTING OUT AND SEASONED VETERANS! If you want a good chuckle then you will also appreciate this little [...]

The 10 Commandments For The OHS Person

George Robotham

The 10 Commandments For The OHS Person Guest Post by George Robotham – and I managed to refrain from calling him the “God of Safety”. That title actually belongs to “SOTER” who was the God of safety, preservation and deliverance from harm. His female equivalent was the Goddess “SOTERIA”. Introduction OHS people often complain about [...]

New Women in Safety Networking Group

Safety Professional

New Women in Safety Networking Group Um…..my apologies to The Brotherhood but some of the best Safety People/Leaders/Consultants I have worked with have been women! Not sure if purely co-incidental or they just have superior intellect, empathy, intuition, organisational skills, greater attention to detail, better risk appreciation, ability to influence or can multi-task etc – [...]

New FREE EBook – Broader Management Skills For The OHS Professional

George Robotham

Broader Management Skills For The OHS Professional (And Other Professionals) Well the first free 216 page EBook – “Guidance for the beginning OHS professional” – George Robotham” – was a huge success with over 3,500 copies sent out and still counting! Inspired by the positive feedback, George has just finished his latest book based on [...]

Non OHS Technical Skills For The OHS Person

Non OHS Technical Skills For The OHS Person by George Robotham The new EBook is available HERE now – go get it! I put my 216 page e book Guidance For The Beginning OHS Professional on this blog about 2 months ago. Since then I have been kept quite busy responding to requests for copies [...]

Trust Me When It Comes To Unsafe Behaviours and Process Improvements

Behaviour Based Safety

A few interesting recent articles by Phil LaDuke on his blog: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/ A message from Phil: I am still struggling to gain readership of my blog that I lost when I abandoned the Rockford Greene International blog (RIP). I hope that if you find this piece valuable you will help me promote my blog by [...]

Challenge to Safety People to get behind a worthy cause

Safety Professional

Challenge to Safety People to get behind a worthy cause A couple of weeks ago Graham Dent posted the on his Linkedin group Work Health Safety (OHS) Leadership for All (Australia) some details of a Triathlon he is competing in on March 24th to raise funds for The Very Special Kids Foundation (I’ve reprinted his [...]

How OHS people can maintain their motivation

George Robotham

How OHS people can maintain their motivation Guest post by 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 idiots and [...]

Ancillary Skills for the Risk and Safety Profession

Ancillary Skills for the Risk and Safety Profession Latest article by Dr Robert Long. I highly recommend his other Articles HERE and his new book: For The Love of Zero When you look at what preoccupies conferences and training in safety, you couldn’t help but think that to be a safety person you just need [...]

Safety “Professionals” Behaving Badly

Safety “Professionals” Behaving Badly I’m currently getting sent all these photos and videos (i wont publish so as to protect the guilty) of a couple of Safety Professionals from a mining contracting company who had to be rescued by a FEL from their overturned 4WD after trying to cross a flooded creek somewhere in the [...]

An Essential Skill for Safety Professionals–Reading Other People

George Robotham

An Essential Skill for Safety Professionals – Reading Other People Article by George Robotham Basic principles The greatest motivator is not money. It is the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, to contribute and be recognised. Be tough on the task but gentle on yourself & others. People judge you by what they see you [...]

An OHS Advisor’s New Year Wish List

George Robotham

An OHS Advisor’s New Year Wish List Guest post by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au I continue not to smoke I lose weight to a healthier range I cut down on the wine Give me the patience I need to positively influence the cretins I have to deal with Make me a better trainer and communicator [...]

Undoubtedly the best anti-smoking ad ever

Undoubtedly the best anti-smoking ad ever? Ok – admit it – how many of you “Safety Professionals”, even though you should know better, have knowingly done the wrong thing in total contradiction to what you are paid big bucks to tell other people not to do?????? Mown the lawn in thongs, gone over the speed [...]

Sanctimony Doesn’t Suit You: The High Moral Ground and Safety

Sanctimony Doesn’t Suit You: The High Moral Ground and Safety Latest exclusive By Phil La Duke – We publish Phil’s other provocative articles HERE. and I highly recommend his blog: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/. “maybe if we stopped distancing ourselves from Operations we can actually get things done, and contribute something of substance” Last week I wrapped up [...]

Insanity rules, ok?

Insanity rules, ok? Guest Post by Louisa Chesswas Harmonised workplace health and safety can be likened to a building. The legislation, regulations, codes of practice, standards and guidelines are the bricks. The mortar tentatively holding it all together is the WHS practitioner who must somehow make sense of it all and put it into plain [...]

OHS Learning for OHS Personnel

OHS Learning for OHS Personnel – George’s Pragmatic Advice Guest Post by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au I sometimes receive requests for advice on personal development for OHS personnel, here is my advice. I am aware my views are not conventional ones. Rightly or wrongly I take the view that OHS Learning is often not very [...]

Do You Choose Your Occupation or Does It Choose You?

George Robotham

Do You Choose Your Occupation or Does It Choose You? by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au I do not know the answer to the above question but the following may help to answer it. I completed grade 12 and like a lot of young people had no idea what I was going to do for a [...]

Doing The Impossible As An OHS Person

Safety Professional

Doing The Impossible As An OHS Person Depending on the circumstances the OHS person has to be the following- A trainer An auditor A Mum and a Dad A policeman A coach A mentor A friend A counsellor A corporate conscience A source of technical advice A salesman A problem solver A project manager A [...]

Safety Professional Association Effectiveness

George Robotham

Safety Professional Association Effectiveness By George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au DOWNLOAD HERE: 1 Introduction This discussion paper represents critical reflection of the author’s experiences with a number of professional organisations, tertiary study in 3 disciplines, extensive OHS and Learning experience, working with 2 excellent leaders, extensive research on leadership and comment from a number of OHS, [...]

What It Takes To Be An Excellent OHS Professional

George Robotham

What It Takes To Be An Excellent OHS Professional Guest post by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au Geoff McDonald Australian safety researcher Geoff McDonald has been my advisor/coach/mentor /guide in my safety career. Geoff McDonald has a system of classifying personal damage occurrences (“Accidents “) that goes something like this- Class 1-Permanently alters the future of [...]

OHS Customer Service

George Robotham

OHS Customer Service by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au. See the rest of George’s Safety Reflections HERE Many is OHS are really in customer service roles where our customers may be managers, supervisors, workers, unions, regulators and employer associations. Always treat the customer like a King or Queen-If you do not your competitors will. As an [...]

Where is the Mothership?

Where is the Mothership? Latest rant by Sarah Jane (Safety Nerd) from Riskology Consulting. See it here: http://riskologyconsulting.com.au/where-is-the-mothership/ As a Safety Professional, the harmonisation of OHS laws recently have become more of a minefield than harmonised, employers don’t know if they are Arthur or Martha. Certificate IV in OHS courses you can now do in [...]

Practical Guidance for OHS Professionals

George Robotham

Practical Guidance for OHS Professionals You have loved his Safety Reflections over the last couple of years and George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au has now incorporated all of his work into this 60 page collection of essential reading for every Safety Professional, new or old. This stuff is based on practical, real world experience and I [...]

Learning and Development Needs of OHS Personnel

George Robotham

George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au has been burning the midnight oil on this for sometime and a big group of us fellow trouble makers have had some input into it. I’ve just published here the general advice section but feel free to download the whole paper if this topic is of interest to you (it should [...]

Quirky Things That Work When Trying To Help Others

Quirky things that work when trying to help others, by George Robotham (With some guidance from Dr. Robert Long) See their other work here: George Robotham - Robert Long Introduction Regardless of what discipline you work in, the people issues will be the most difficult to manage. Have you ever been in a situation where despite [...]

My First Fatality

If I can, for once, be a little serious and compassionate….. A fellow Safety Professional, in a brand new role, recently experienced her first fatality. Unfortunately, many of us have been through this. I am still haunted by the first fatality that occurred on “my watch”. To help get through it, she has written and [...]

Advice to new OHS people

George Robotham

Advice to new OHS people Guest Post by George “Failure is Not an Option” Robotham, from www.ohschange.com.au Read more of Georges thoughts HERE Quotes: I make no apologies for the fact that I challenge the accepted wisdom in some of what follows! The last thing I will leave you with are risk assessment and Zero [...]

No Secrets and the Professionalisation of Safety Knowledge

Latest article by Dr Robert Long for the thinkers amongst us – with a few subtle bits of logic thrown in for the unsuspecting. Does your perceived power and knowledge, your “holier than thou” attitude or your safety policing approach lead to under reporting? You should also read the whole series by Rob: CLICK HERE. [...]

Marketing of OHS

Marketing of OHS By George Robotham – www.ohschange.com.au Sometimes skills from other disciplines can be applied successfully to OHS, one such skill set is marketing. I have attended some marketing training but admittedly the focus was on marketing consultancy services. What I have tried to do with the following is provide are a few marketing [...]

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, [...]

What Is It That You Do Here?

Latest exclusive article by Phil La Duke. In this article, Phil discusses a quandary that we have all had in this profession at one time or another, and in fact probably always will have! Personally, I still struggle with explaining what I do as there are so many perceptions and misconceptions about our role (See [...]

First Steps in a New Safety Job

George Robotham

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE HERE By George Robotham www.ohschange.com.au First Steps New Job Basic An inexperienced OHS person recently asked me what they should do when starting in a new OHS position. Rightly or wrongly here is what I told her- Talk to the senior leaders about what they want / need / expect. [...]

Tips for the Resume and Application for that Safety Job

Employee Involvement

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE HERE By George Robotham www.ohschange.com.au Tips for the Resume and Application for that Safety Job Background The author has received tertiary training in Human Resource Management and training in the “Targeted Selection” method of employment interviewing. He has conducted a number of employment interviews and attended a number. Major tip [...]

Safety Censorship

One of our guest Authors, Phil La Duke was unceremoniously dumped from a LinkedIn Forum (and Aussie one!) for daring to publish this article. It is heavy duty and provocative but one needs to look beyond taking it personally or getting offended (I would be concerned if I was offended by this) and at the [...]

Managing the OHS Practical – Theoretical Divide

George Robotham

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE HERE Managing the OHS Practical – Theoretical Divide by George Robotham – www.ohschange.com.au 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 [...]

A Comparison of Safety Paradigms

Another VERY interesting article by Dr Robert Long, one of the most succinct and useful comparisons of the various safety paradigms that I have come across. Again, no apologies to the Zero Harm fans! If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE. I highly recommend you check out Rob’s [...]

The Safety Generalist

The Safety Generalist Latest article by from Phil La Duke from his regular column in fabricating and metalworking online magazine. Phil is starting a series of articles that take a look at the various safety specialties. He starts with the Safety Generalist. We publish his other provocative articles HERE More of his Fabricating and metalworking [...]

Scale of the Universe–Cool Tool

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 [...]

Success Is All About How You Show Up

Following a torrent of abuse from some recent articles which touched a nerve and hit a tad too close to home for some, Phil and I have been lying low!. Til’ now….here is the latest exclusive from Phil La Duke. We publish his other provocative articles HERE and I highly recommend his blog: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/. I’m [...]

Why I Pick On Safety Professionals

Why I continue to Pick On Safety Professionals. By Phil La Duke from his blog http://philladuke.wordpress.com/ Whenever I post a blog entry or submit a guest blog entry the cries of injustice ring out. “Why does he always pick on the safety professional? Doesn’t he know how hard we work? How under-valued we are? How [...]

Safety and Risk Professionalisation

Following on from the popular and somewhat divisive article “Arrogant Safety Professionals Take Note” Dr Robert Long Takes a look at the problems associated with Professionalisation of the Safety and Risk Function particularly where the accepted characteristics of Professionals do not align well with the intention of human service. If you liked this article then [...]

Anxiety and Fear Professionals

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” – Nelson Mandela. Another great article by Dr Robert Long to stir the pot! – If you liked this article then you should read the whole series: CLICK HERE. I highly recommend you check out Rob’s new book “RISK MAKES SENSE” – [...]

Oh Would You PLEASE Shut the @#$& Up?

You loved his last article (well most of you did except the ones it was aimed at!) here is the latest exclusive from Phil La Duke. We publish his other provocative articles HERE and I highly recommend his blog: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/. I’m just the messenger! ENJOY! Oh Would You PLEASE Shut the @#$& Up? I’d like [...]

Jargon Killed the Astronauts

Phil LaDuke joins our panel of renown and highly respected safety writers including, Dr Rob Long, Bill Sims Jr and George Robotham. Everyone has enjoyed his previous articles (HERE). This is Phil’s latest article and provided exclusively to us. It is a much more sombre and less provocative than his previous work but one that [...]

Arrogant Safety Professionals Take Note!

Behaviour Based Safety

I always have a chuckle when safety people try to make out they are so clever and above everyone else by putting all these stupid letters after their names. Blokes on site have a great time making up derogatory interpretations of those acronyms – particularly juicy letters like F, W, C, S & P (did [...]

What is a Health & Safety Consultant

Health & Safety Consultants See – they do have a sense of humour! Thanks to SJ from the Safety Toolshed If you can relate to this poster then you will love: Ode To The Safety Professional A light-hearted look at the characteristics of a good OHS Professional

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