Minor injuries may have little to no connection with fatal injuries. No great epiphany or diatribe here – just three readily accessible extracts highlighting that focusing on minor stuff may not give many insights into the stuff that kills. 1. “There is no discernible association between Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) and fatalities” 2. “analysis… Continue reading Minor injuries may have little to no connection with fatal injuries
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Safe AF #8: The harm in zero harm
Is Zero Harm a laudable approach or a misdirection–a utopian fantasy–associated with higher fatality rates? Safe AF episode #8 dives into a paper which compares safety injury and fatality performance between zero and non-zero construction company adopters in the UK. From: Sherratt, F., & Dainty, A. R. (2017). UK construction safety: a zero paradox?. Policy and… Continue reading Safe AF #8: The harm in zero harm
Building Resilience into Safety Management Systems: Precursors and Controls to Reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs)
This report, part of creative sentencing research, explored Serious Incidents and Fatalities (SIFs) in mining, and the causes, and the most effective controls for SIFs. Another aim was around the fallibility of people, and when they make mistakes, ensuring there are adequate capacities “so that they ‘fail safely’”, rather than “rather than ‘failing lucky”, or… Continue reading Building Resilience into Safety Management Systems: Precursors and Controls to Reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs)
Safe AF ep #4: Relationship between fatal and non-fatal accidents based on 23k accidents
Is there a connection between fatal and non-fatal accidents, or is it a fallacy to focus on the minor potential events with the hope of managing the major events? Today’s study explores these relationships based on 23k reported serious accidents in the Netherlands. Ref: Bellamy, L. J. (2015). Exploring the relationship between major hazard, fatal… Continue reading Safe AF ep #4: Relationship between fatal and non-fatal accidents based on 23k accidents
Impact of Energy-Based Safety Training on Quality of Prejob Safety Meetings and Control of Hazardous Energy in Construction: Multiple Baseline Experiment
This study explored the role of energy-based safety training on the quality of the prestart meetings. Method was a multiple baseline assessment on 10 construction crews in the US and Canada following the training intervention, then measuring the prejob safety brief quality and HECA (High Energy Control Assessment). Background: · Construction accounts for about 7%… Continue reading Impact of Energy-Based Safety Training on Quality of Prejob Safety Meetings and Control of Hazardous Energy in Construction: Multiple Baseline Experiment
Moving beyond TRIR: Measuring and monitoring safety performance with high-energy control assessments
Another post on SIFs, this time the High Energy Control Assessments (HECA) from Oguz Erkal & Hallowell. Link to article below, plus to a HECA guide, and to the SIF compendium. Extracts: · HECA is “the percentage of high-energy hazards with a corresponding direct control” · HECA is binary because “every condition observation is modeled only as… Continue reading Moving beyond TRIR: Measuring and monitoring safety performance with high-energy control assessments
Building Resilience into Safety Management Systems: Precursors and Controls to Reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs)
Another on SIF prevention. This (interim) report (another from the recent compendium – see comments for link) covers the findings from a few activities, including two SIF workshops about ID, implementing and monitoring critical controls for SIF hazards, and the role of human and org factors. Too much to cover, so a few extracts: · “the… Continue reading Building Resilience into Safety Management Systems: Precursors and Controls to Reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs)
Preventing serious injuries & fatalities: time for a sociotechnical model for an operational risk management system
Here’s a 2008 article from Fred Manuele which was included in my SIF compendium (link to compendium & article below). Fred explores a sociotechnical approach to preventing SIFs. The fatality rate in the US from 1971 to 2005 decreased from 17 to 4, but remained stable from 06 to 2011 at ~3.5; hence SIF prevention… Continue reading Preventing serious injuries & fatalities: time for a sociotechnical model for an operational risk management system
Compendium: SIFs, Major Hazards, Fatal & Traumatic hazards, risks
This is an expansion to my prior compendium on Critical Controls, Barriers and Energy thinking. Suggest you read that in conjunction to this, link here: Barriers, Critical Controls, Verifications, Energy Models If you’re after indicators check this mini-compendium out: Safety & Risk Performance indicators (lead, lag, drive, process safety + more) This compendium focuses on articles… Continue reading Compendium: SIFs, Major Hazards, Fatal & Traumatic hazards, risks
Safety Theatre: Where your accidents hide in the green
This article from Dekker discusses how accidents “hide in the green” within organisations. He covers a lot of ground, and I can’t cover all of the key points, so you’ll find my paragraphs pretty disjointed and jarring; so check out the full paper. Firstly, it’s stated that incidents involving fatalities seemed to have a consistency… Continue reading Safety Theatre: Where your accidents hide in the green
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