Les Henley is an OHS professional with Safety Australia Group and often challenges my article. I appreciate the dialogue. This is the latest in a series of profiles/articles intended to humanise occupational health and safety people beyond the structures of LinkedIn and other professional profile site. If you want to participate, email your responses to … Continue reading “OHS and Les Henley”
Any assessment of ethics in relation to occupational health and safety (OHS) is worthwhile and so the release of a chapter on ethics by the Australian Institute of Health and Safety (AIHS) generated some excitement. That excitement diminished somewhat as this Chapter of the Body of Knowledge (BoK) dealt with ethics in a very narrow …
The media is full of lists of Christmas reading, usually in order to sell books. Below is a selection of the safety-related books that are in my Summer reading pile. (No, I am not going to list the Batman comics or Star Trek books. That would be embarrassing.) Social Sensemaking I first met Robert Sams … Continue reading “SafetyAtWorkBlog’s Christmas reading list”
In a comment to a recent blog article Gregor McGhee asked: “Just out of curiosity can you recommend any books for comparison with respect to presentation, footnotes, references and endnotes?” Most books related to occupational health and safety (OHS) are written by academics for an academic audience so there are clear referencing protocols and styles with … Continue reading “Editing is an essential element of safety communication”
Recently SafetyAtWorkBlog reviewed a safety book of terrific content but poor presentation. Last week I received an Australian book which presented different issues. “Risky Conversations – The Law, Social Psychology and Risk” has been written by Dr Robert Long, lawyer Greg Smith and consultant Craig Ashhurst and is the fifth in a series of books … Continue reading “Risky Conversations – enlightening and confusing”
Australia’s latest Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has a strong background in technology investment and is urging the country to embrace innovation. This has generated a focus on information technology start-ups but it may also create opportunities for occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals, if they are willing to change. There has been a quick growth …
Safe Work Australia recently released its second research paper related to developing or communicating a business case for occupational health and safety (OHS). The paper has been authored by Sharron O’Neill and is called “The Business Case for Safe, Healthy and Productive Work – Implications for resource allocation: Procurement, Contracting and infrastructure decisions“. O’Neill’s paper …