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Transpacific Industries: Disciplinary action as a safety control
This is a case I have looked at before, and often use in management training to help explain the concept of reasonably practicable, and the relationship between reasonably practicable and the hierarchy...
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Are health and safety managers “company officers” and should they be?
This post has been prompted by recent activity on various blogs and safety discussion boards about whether a health and safety manager could be a Company Officer for the purposes of recently adopted...
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25 Years on: Remembering Piper Alpha
In the past few weeks I have been asked to do presentations and share my views about the legacy of Piper Alpha in this, the 25th anniversary year of the disaster. For me, the positive legacy is the...
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Safety risk and safety data: Exploring management line of sight
I have recently done a video presentation on a fatality at the Adelaide Desalination plant, which you can find by following this link. Recently, I was reading some of the transcript of the South...
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Delphic motherhood statements part 2 – safety documents that nobody can...
A little while ago I did a post looking at the complexity of documented safety management systems, and the role that documentation has played in undermining effective safety management. You can review...
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Contractor safety management series: Introduction
I have just finished finalising a presentation for a case involving the death of a worker employed by a subcontractor that was 2 companies removed from the Principal. The case involved the prosecution...
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Contractor safety management series Part 2: Stratton V Van Driel Limited
Stratton v Van Driel Limited is the second case in our contractor safety management series. It is a somewhat older decision, having been handed down in 1998, but useful in that it looks at a narrow...
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Lead indicators: Reinforcing the illusion of safety
One of my biggest gripes about safety management over the past 20 plus years is the lemming like fascination with “indicators“. Notoriously, major inquiries around the globe have found that when...
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When does the language of “zero harm” become unlawful?
I am not a fan of the language of “zero“, either as an aspiration or as a stated goal. It has never sat well with me, and seems so disconnected from day to day reality in both society and a workplace...
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Work as it is actually performed: investigating when nothing happens
There has been some discussions and commentary in various online forums recently looking at the issue of “positive” incident investigations. Although there seems to be a variety of nuances in the...
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