Goal Zero Leads To Risk-Taking
When organizations measure themselves against their numbers of failure can be an extremely dangerous approach. It leads the employees...
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- Apr 25, 2021
- 3 min
Back to Work After COVID-19
As governments and industry begin to restart the global economy there are business that are beginning to phase their workforce back into...
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- Apr 18, 2021
- 6 min
What Are Auditable Requirements
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...
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- Apr 11, 2021
- 3 min
Working Smarter, Not Harder
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...
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- Apr 4, 2021
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The Bandwidth of Safety Management
A common mistake organizations and safety professionals often make is trying to do too much at once. Whilst it might seem logical that...
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- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
The Burden of Responsibility
I don't think it's any secret that organizations rely heavily on their most competent personnel to keep the company moving forward....
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- Mar 21, 2021
- 3 min
Safety Sign Blindness
Recently I was asked why there weren't signs up to highlight a hazard that had recently contributed to an injury. The comment brought...
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- Mar 14, 2021
- 2 min
Qualities of a Great Safety Leader
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...
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- Mar 7, 2021
- 10 min
Shifting Sands of Health & Safety
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...
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- Feb 28, 2021
- 6 min
Differentiating Responsibility and Accountability in Health and Safety
An interesting issue I’ve faced right throughout my career has been when I've tried to explain the semantics around accountability and...
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- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Does A Degree Matter?
In the mid-part of the 20th century, with reinforcement of Heinrich's research, and with Bird reiterating the importance of human factors...
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- Feb 14, 2021
- 7 min
HSE Training as a 'Fix-It'
Having been a team member, leader and sponsor for many an incident investigation, one thing I've noticed is the inevitable root cause of...
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- Feb 7, 2021
- 4 min
Safety Culture and the Organisation
The safety culture within an organisation is considered to be a reflection of the attitudes, actions, and behaviours of all employees...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 5 min
Getting Value From Your HSE Management System
Within any modern organisation, it’s fair to say that significant resources are deployed to manage safety & to ensure compliance with...
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- Jan 24, 2021
- 4 min
What's Your Strategy for Safe Behaviour?
A strong safety culture within any organization isn't something that just happens. For every successful company though, you can always...
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- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
Components of Successful Safety Culture
I often feel that the term 'safety culture' is misused and abused by HSE leaders trying to capture all their organizations safety efforts...
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- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
Creating Simplicity From Complexity
Safety to some people is a complex, confusing and frustrating expectation of their jobs and is often lumped on them without adequate...
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- Jan 3, 2021
- 3 min
Oil and Gas E&P Lifecycle
The treatment of risks needs to be understood across the life cycle of a project, in doing so organizations are better to understand the...
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- Dec 27, 2020
- 2 min
Thinking Outside The Box
When innovators talk about thinking outside the box, they mean coming up with creative ways to solve problems - new ways to look at...
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- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
Perfectionism
Perfectionism' is a most prevalent belief in our civilization. Believing that everything we needs to be absolutely perfect is so embedded...
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