The Health and Safety profession has made great strides in safety performance over the last 50 years, technology has become safer to use, and techniques such as HAZOP and bowtie analysis have given us ways to think about and manage hazards. This approach has served the industry well, but safety performance has recently stalled.
Learning from performance variation, not just failure
Have you ever been involved in a safety investigation where you felt like you were being interrogated?
You felt like you've done something wrong, and the intention was more to find out how you should be punished than how your organisation could learn.
Sadly many of us have either had that or heard about others that have had that particular experience, yet the fact is that such an approach does very little to improve safety.
Topics: Reviews, Audits and Inspections, Organisational Resilience, Safety Differently
From Compliance to Organisational Resilience. 4 critical principles
Topics: Safety Management Systems, Organisational Resilience
Overcoming the tick & flick. The road to adaptive capacity
Work as imagined (WAI) versus work as a done (WAD), some abstract terms, but really useful in terms of their implications. We could also refer to the terms collectively, a different label, the job perception gap.
Topics: Safety Culture, Safety coaching, Safety Differently
Simplifying safety systems and reducing the weight of compliance
The past principles and practices of safety management have served us really well and they will continue to do so particularly for simple tasks where individuals or small groups are carrying out things where the risks are well-known and not much is changing in the environment.
However, what happens when a procedure doesn't fit the situation?
What happens if something unexpected strikes and there's no rule to cover the situation?
What happens if we chose to go outside the procedure to get things done?
Topics: Safe Systems of Work, Safety Management Systems, Organisational Resilience, Safety Differently
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