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Oor Wee Blog

A place for us to write about things we see, find, come across and ponder at.

If you like what you read, please share it with others. Let's poke, provoke, call it out and change some things about the way we work rest and play.  

  • Posted on 2nd April 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

Having is evidence of wanting

Secretly, perhaps, you want those unsafe behaviours!

Having is evidence of wanting!

There is an idea out there that our subconscious drives our conscious….

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  • Posted on 1st April 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

Measuring success in training

There is a propensity within the construction industry to measure the success of training by measuring how many people go through the training, and often, how fast can they get through it….

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  • Posted on 31st March 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

You might not believe this…

“The point I interface with the environment fundamentally determines my behaviour” – Rory Sutherland
You might not believe this, you might disagree with this, but it is, none the less quite true. Very true in fact.
“I” is you, you are unique….

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  • Posted on 31st March 202114th March 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

Placement of Product

Most of what you are and have accomplished in life is due to where you are rather than who you are. Most of where you are is because of where you were before that.[…]

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  • Posted on 30th March 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

How much does your experience matter?

Your personal account of how the world works isn’t good enough to describe how the world works.

Your journey so far, on this planet has given you (and me) a biased view of how things are, what causes them and what to believe in….

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  • Posted on 29th March 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

There is always context

There is always context.
context that you, as the person that just found out about the act are never fully aware of.
context that the act done was done in and because of….

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  • Posted on 28th March 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

Feedback as a driver of behaviour

If you are not a touch typer, try typing a word behaviour without looking at the keyboard.
behavkor – that’s what happens for me. So close!
Every behaviour we do, from the key typed, the nail hammered to the words spoken receive feedback, a consequence.[…]

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  • Posted on 27th March 202121st July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

The hidden risks of paperwork

A paper cut is not the biggest risk you face from the voluminous paper you are making people fill out every day. The biggest risk you face is the real risk of death or the jail!
There is as epidemic of paperwork in the construction industry.[…]

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  • Posted on 26th March 202111th July 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

Never-ending Checklists

Some well intended safety people were reviewing an activity on site. First they checked the paperwork which included daily checklists for the equipment being used…

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  • Posted on 25th March 202121st April 2022
  • Bob Cummins
  • Blog

Safety just isn’t a priority

If it were, there would be unlimited time and money.
No, safety is a challenge, a puzzle, best solved by not specifically focussing on safety, but on focussing on what it takes to deliver the task correctly.
Correctly = to time, budget, to spec and with all fingers and toes left in tact. […]

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