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This ran a content analysis of Annual Reports (AP) of publicly listed Australian non-domestic construction companies to study executive safety incentives. They cover some known issues with safety performance metrics. For common injury measures like LTI: “These types of measures have been criticized because they often combine and treat all types of injuries (irrespective of… Continue reading Constructing safety – investigating senior executive long-term incentive plans and safety objectives in the construction sector

“Do an ICAM” is probably one of the most ubiquitous terms when working in construction. It’s almost like Newton’s unknown law of construction work that an ICAM be performed for a serious or serious potential event. So how well do construction ICAM investigations align with systems thinking principles? How often do ICAMs evaluate upstream and… Continue reading ICAM, construction investigations, and false dawns

This explored the new construct “site sense” for construction, drawing on the UK coal mining’s “pit sense” concept which has been used to describe the application of tacit knowledge and situated knowledge to managing risk. Data was from non-participant site observations and semi-structured interviews from workers in micro-construction firms. For background, it’s said that explicit… Continue reading Introducing site sense: Comparing situated knowledge in construction to coalmining

Abstract Background Under-reporting of occupational injuries (OIs) among precariously employed workers in Sweden challenges effective surveillance of OIs and targeted preventive measures. Objective To estimate the magnitude of under-reporting of OIs among precarious and non-precarious workers in Sweden in 2013. Methods Capture–recapture methods were applied using the national OIs register and records from a labour market insurance company.… Continue reading Under-reporting of non-fatal occupational injuries among precarious and non-precarious workers in Sweden

The Barriers and Enhancers to Trust in a Just Culture in Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review This systematic review of the literature explored the following question: “What are the barriers and enhancers of trust in the communication of errors by health professionals in a just culture in a hospital setting?” Only 14 studies met the… Continue reading The Barriers and Enhancers to Trust in a Just Culture in Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review

This studied OHS performance measures (OHSPM) published by Australia’s 50 largest ASX listed firms between 1997 – 09. 37 of 50 sampled firms provided injury data in their annual disclosure at least once over the reporting periods. Overall, authors note a general reluctance of firms to disclose OHSPM related to higher consequence events and other… Continue reading Safewash! Risk attenuation and the (Mis)reporting of corporate safety performance to investors

Two of many studies exploring Root Cause Analysis methodologies in healthcare and whether these investigations prevent repeat occurrences (sources in comments). Study 1 evaluated 21 studies and found: Despite RCAs and investigations being promoted under the guise of preventing reoccurrences, the authors state that “more recent studies do not confirm these findings” (p12), Based on… Continue reading Are Root Cause Analyses (RCA) effective for preventing incident reoccurrences?

This is a really interesting report which explored the extent that Australian major hazard facilities (MHF) had learnt from the 1998 Esso Longford disaster, three years after the event. I’ve referenced this report a lot in my writings, so thought it was time to post a summary. You should be able to freely access the… Continue reading Have Australia’s Major Hazard Facilities learnt from the Longford Disaster?

A really interesting read on the ‘surrogation’ phenomenon, which is where strategies and goals are mentally replaced by the metrics developed to measure the strategy. There’s several papers on this topic which I plan to summarise in the future. As the article notes “Every day, at almost every company, strategy is being hijacked by numbers”… Continue reading HBR article: Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business

This was a brief theory paper describing a new method for scoring the strength of corrective actions with the intention of determining the influence on broader systems change – called the systems change hierarchy (SCH). This summary/paper will be clearer to you if you have a squiz at the Action Hierarchy (AH) methodology from the… Continue reading Beyond the corrective action hierarchy: A systems approach to organizational change