When organizations measure themselves against their numbers of failure can be an extremely dangerous approach. It leads the employees...

As governments and industry begin to restart the global economy there are business that are beginning to phase their workforce back into...

Auditing is both an art and a science, a combination of an auditor’s technical knowledge of a subject and their ability to digest and...

Each and every day, we're faced with deciding what tasks we should do now, and what tasks we can leave a little longer. Most of us will...

A common mistake organizations and safety professionals often make is trying to do too much at once. Whilst it might seem logical that...

I don't think it's any secret that organizations rely heavily on their most competent personnel to keep the company moving forward....

Recently I was asked why there weren't signs up to highlight a hazard that had recently contributed to an injury. The comment brought...

There is no simple answer to what it takes to become a great safety leader. But whether you're a natural born leader or whether, like...

Early Days of Health and Safety ​Health and safety as a profession can trace its roots back to the early 19th century and the industrial...

An interesting issue I’ve faced right throughout my career has been when I've tried to explain the semantics around accountability and...

In the mid-part of the 20th century, with reinforcement of Heinrich's research, and with Bird reiterating the importance of human factors...

Having been a team member, leader and sponsor for many an incident investigation, one thing I've noticed is the inevitable root cause of...

The safety culture within an organisation is considered to be a reflection of the attitudes, actions, and behaviours of all employees...

Within any modern organisation, it’s fair to say that significant resources are deployed to manage safety & to ensure compliance with...

A strong safety culture within any organization isn't something that just happens. For every successful company though, you can always...

I often feel that the term 'safety culture' is misused and abused by HSE leaders trying to capture all their organizations safety efforts...

Safety to some people is a complex, confusing and frustrating expectation of their jobs and is often lumped on them without adequate...

The treatment of risks needs to be understood across the life cycle of a project, in doing so organizations are better to understand the...

When innovators talk about thinking outside the box, they mean coming up with creative ways to solve problems - new ways to look at...

Perfectionism' is a most prevalent belief in our civilization. Believing that everything we needs to be absolutely perfect is so embedded...