Understanding how Australian, or indeed international corporations fare with regards to Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) requires us to reflect upon both…
Sir’, he said in a pale voice. ‘It was 59 degrees in the engine room that afternoon and I took my helmet…
As a safety professional the concepts of safety differently can be challenging at best. What if everything that you had built your…
January 20, 2020: How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’ January 21, 2020: A Decade Later, Dutch Officials publish a…
During a running training with 15 fellow runners, we had a half hour work-out on stairs that ran along the fire station…
What have you done to enable safety differently in your organisation? In Laing O’Rourke we were very fortunate to have a leadership…
With spring (March to May) in Afghanistan comes the fighting season. As the mountain snow recedes, Afghani tribesmen are once again able…
(Originally posted September 2016) There is something disturbingly negative about safety. And I believe there are three main reasons for this. The…
Using cute animations and a catchy tune, Melbourne-based Metro Trains recently launched a public safety announcement. The video ‘Dumb ways to die’…
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One of the missing pieces in our theory and research on safety differently has been what it means for the role of safety…
By Dr Todd Conklin
The other day I was observing a medical first aid class, and the instructor was discussing the signs and symptoms of heart attacks….
Some of you may have heard this already from one source or another, but I am stepping away from running the SafetyDifferently.com site….
When the FAA embraced Safety Management System (SMS), we all joined in with an understanding of shared responsibility, we did not consider social…
Let’s go back some 18 years in time. The local time was 03.10. I was standing my watch as a Second Officer on…
When General Stanley McChrystal took over the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command[1] (JSOC) in Iraq during the mid-2000s, he inherited an organisation struggling…
After the Parkland, Fl., school shooting February 14, 2018 the nation’s anger focused for a while on then-school resource officer Scot Peterson, who…
At a recent conference I attended, there was a paper describing an attempt to “manage” the risks involved in rock climbing. This highlighted…