Close calls are filled in to meet the quota of close calls needed to be filled in.
Close call programmes don’t directly improve safety.
If safety improves, it wasn’t the close call reporting that led to safety improvement…
Method statements, Risk assessments, Safe Systems of work, if done correctly, as good as they can be, are at best and only, planning documents.
They are not behaviour driving documents.[…]
Having the right mindset, beliefs and values will lead to improved health and safety performance, right?
Well, only if these thoughts manifest into physical things.
There is no escaping the fact that in order for safety to happen[…]
Why take the time to observe the desired behaviour when you can audit a completed checklist?
These days there are more ‘things’ that we demand of our staff than ever before. […]
Spoiler alert – Rainbows aren’t real.
You and your dog are walking in the field, in the distance you see a rainbow. Beautiful, high definition colours…..
Your dog sees the rainbow too, but to him, with his dichromatic vision, only parts of the rainbow is visible […]
Statements like – “Safety is a priority” can be dangerous.
Dangerous because the at risk worker can see right through the false claim.
Actions speak louder than false platitudes […]
Listen to that feeling, the feeling you have when you are doing something. If everything feels normal, it’s because you are doing what you’ve always done. But if you are feeling perhaps some anxiety, some uncomfortable feeling when[…]
You are creating and cementing habits every day. Every day you are growing stronger at the things you do. Every action, every behaviour literally leads to a thickening of the neural pathways in your brain as it receiver the feedback from your actions. The actions become less thought out, more automatic. You become an expert. You ar[…]
If someone isn’t doing something that you want, there’s no consequences. You might be thinking, ‘yeah, that’s right, they’re breaking the rules because there’s no consequences’ – well, no, that’s not what I’m talking about. And actually that’s an incorrect assumption, a fallacy. The belief[…]
At many levels in business and society there is competition between individual gain and collective good. There is a paradox, or an incompatibility, an incongruence, a conflict – whatever it is, it is there, and a balance needs to be maintained for optimum performance for the collective. Imagine that you are a seasoned construction[…]