Practice…
If something doesn’t happen.
If a person doesn’t do something that you expected them to do.[…]
Go check…
Do you have a daily checklist for something or other? As part of your processes, you ask someone to complete a checklist, daily, every day, for the same thing they did the day before?[…]
Absence of injury, absence of data
You can’t judge how compliant, experienced or competent your people are on the amount of accidents, incidents or health issues you have or don’t have….
Judging performance
You can’t judge how compliant, experienced or competent your people are on the amount of accidents, incidents or health issues you have or don’t have.[…]
Our actions, the way we do things
We are forever changing, we are become different people as we move through different environments.
But…
Close calls are filled in to meet the quota
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…
How to get at-risk workers to wear light eye protection
A lot of people ask me how they can make it more likely that their at-risk workers wear the basic PPE, especially light eye protection.
I’m not a fan of blanket policies, but if you have them, the worst thing you can do is not to stand by them. So.[…]
Documents vs Environment
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.[…]
Safety is not a choice
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[…]