Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Recently I saw some marketing that zero was a ‘noble aim’, nothing could be more absurd. More so, when one is trying to dismantle it. The idea of something being ‘noble’ is either associated with rank and nobility, showing fine moral principles or elite … Learn more >>>>>
No sir – buried alive by the National Coal Board
An Aberfan father at the coronial inquest
In October 2016 a BBC News documentary commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster as a mistake that cost a village its children. A thixotropic avalanche … Learn more >>>>>
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards
At the turn of the millennium the Australian federal government under John Howard embarked on a sinister sociopolitical and economic crusade to emasculate and eviscerate the occupational health safety … Learn more >>>>>
I received an email yesterday about data mining and safety data with promises of making unseen risks visible using artificial intelligence (AI). The marketing is ‘choc-a-block’ with promises of what AI can do and how algorithmic analysis can tell you more … Learn more >>>>>
Wise sayings are all about living and being (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wise-sayings) and mostly don’t provide answers. If you are stressed out, lonely, frazzled or confused: go for a walk, say hello, coffee with someone, smell the flowers or take in a mountain/ocean view. No, we … Learn more >>>>>
