This was interesting – describes an ethnographic study where the researcher was onsite recording/observing work on job craft/craftsmanship, when they observed a minor site incident. It’s framed about the researcher’s contention that this hazard was normalised by the workers – but an entirely “mundane and accepted dimension of everyday site practice”. First they unpack some… Continue reading Into the workers’ domain: witnessing a construction site accident
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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
Is zero harm a utopian fantasy?
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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