Part 1 interview with Associate Professor Drew Rae: New View evidence, safety clutter, value and evidence of risk assessments, Take 5 rituals + more More interviews on the way – including two leading global construction safety experts (you’ll know them), a data expert who traced the history of injury frequency rates, a leading behavioural and… Continue reading Part 1 interview with Dr Drew Rae: New View evidence, safety clutter, risk assessments, Take 5 rituals + more

Did you check out my Safe As YouTube channel this week? Link: https://youtube.com/@safe_as_pod?si=Zgpi0MVb8JdhliKl We covered: 1. Part 2 interview with Prof Sid Dekker, covering behavioural safety, simplistic slogans like zero harm, and KPIs and measures 2. ‘Quantification fixation’ and how counting and measuring can shift our focus to managing the numbers over the core issues… Continue reading Safe As Week in review: Dekker on behavioural safety/BBS, how measuring/quantifying harms us, AI & false memories, and leaders &mental health

Are your metrics distorting decision making? A recent study shows that we don’t just count what matters, we start to value what we can count. Numbers feel objective, but they can bias us. Re-spruiking this ep as it didn’t get much love – less than 4 mins of your life. Link in comments. Have you… Continue reading Are your metrics distorting decision making?

Want to know the cutting edge, new-fangled ideas of industrial safety? Read on. Oh, and it’s from 1948. ** PS. Check out my YouTube: https://youtube.com/@safe_as_pod?si=nrKljK0AeUZXTOgd Extracts: History of Safety– ·        “Originally during the early days of the safety movement, safety work was just a job that was assigned to someone who could be spared from production… Continue reading 1948: History of the safety field, importance of trust, and severity vs frequency rates

Does counting change what counts? If we create business indicators on things we’d like to monitor, like injuries, profits, tendering, productivity, do we inadvertently focus on managing the numbers instead of the core issues?

Was Deepwater Horizon / Macondo blowout a ‘systems’ accident? Not much to say here – just an extract from a paper that modelled the accident using a control structure. ** PS. Check out my YouTube: https://youtube.com/@safe_as_pod?si=nrKljK0AeUZXTOgd Some quotes: ·        “Figure 1 finds no single root-cause or chain of behaviours to have caused the accident” ·        “Although the… Continue reading Was Deepwater Horizon / Macondo blowout a ‘systems’ accident?

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Is good safety good business? A 1940 article discussing the evidence – and showing how it dated back decades even then. Have some more classic bangers coming up soon. ** PS. Check out my YouTube: https://youtube.com/@safe_as_pod?si=nrKljK0AeUZXTOgd Extracts: ·    “The theme … that money can be saved by a safety program is not new and is not… Continue reading 1940 article on whether good safety = good business