An interesting extract from Sherratt & Dainty’s much debated 2017 paper – covered in tomorrow’s Safe AF podcast ep #8. They argue that zero approaches are a utopia that: “was challenged and even derided by the construction workers themselves, for whom the lived realities of their working lives tells them Zero is, and is likely… Continue reading Is zero harm a utopian fantasy?
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Examining the asymptote in safety progress: A literature review
This paper is highly recommended. I can’t do it justice as it covers a lot of material, but the authors argue that a range of safety practices and beliefs are linked to a plateau in safety performance improvements. Practices associated with compliance, control and quantification could be, at least partially, responsible for this inability to… Continue reading Examining the asymptote in safety progress: A literature review
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