The title is right. SafetyAtWorkBlog readership statistics are 6,000 higher than for April 2010 and over 4,000 higher than the previous monthly record. For May 2010, monthly readership topped 18,000 for the first time.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the blog and those new readers.
Please don’t be shy in commenting on the articles or in telling your friends and colleagues about the blog.
Guest contributor Jim Ward writes:
Interested observers of past OHS failures would do well to pay close attention to the insights of former BP employee Ross Macfarlane in the SafetyAtWorkBlog – A personal insight into BP and the corporate approach to safety.
His erudite observations of some of the underlying issues surrounding BP’s succession of calamities during the noughties and the company’s subsequent struggle to come to grips with the implications for its brand, culture, ethics and self perception are rare.
They are the sort of insights not usually captured during a formal root cause analysis of an OHS disaster. Irrespective of who is found to be right and who is wrong some things just don’t help when it comes to trying to achieve a safe workplace. But, Macfarlane’s insights do.
Macfarlane’s apt description of the “Cult of Lord Browne” is given further weight by the erstwhile CEO’s own account of his life and times as the head of the oil giant in his memoir Beyond Business.
In my view Browne is a narcissist. In his book he portrays himself as
“a visionary leader who transformed a lacklustre organisation into one of the world’s biggest, most successful and admired companies”.
My take on it is that he was admired by his peers but not as much as he was by himself. Continue reading “Leadership starts with the truth”
Since SafetyAtWorkBlog began in January 2008, the site has seen a steady increase in readership, particularly since January 2009.
As can be seen from the blog over the last few months, there have been useful and fascinating contributions by Yossi Berger, Col Finnie and others. The increase in comments from readers is particularly gratifying.
As well as helping to share the load of blog writing, the increasing popularity shows this blog can be a useful platform for OHS ideas and commentary.
The SafetyAtWorkBlog is averaging just around 600 readers each day and around 15,000 readers per month. We recently were 20 shy of reaching 1000 readers in a single day. 60% of the readership is in Australasia with the United States at just over 20%. Continue reading “SafetyAtWorkBlog contributors wanted”
In February 2010, SafetyAtWorkBlog gained its 10,000th monthly reader. It is an achievement that we were very proud of as it has taken a couple of years to reach that point.
However, within a couple of months, the monthly readership reached over 13,000, as the graph below shows. Some of the statistics will grow simply by the fact of having existed for several years but that fact does not account for the rapid growth over the last month or so.
SafetyAtWorkBlog is averaging 361 viewers each day for 2010 and within this first quarter total viewer numbers are just below half of the number for the whole of 2009.
The average number of posts each working day is around two.
Please remember that you are welcome to join the SafetyAtWorkBlog as a contributor if you have an opinion on workplace safety and, increasingly, workplace compensation. Or you can continue to comment on any of the posts, as an increasing number of readers are doing..
February 2010 was the first month for SafetyAtWorkBlog to achieve well over 10,000 readers. Thanks for all your support.
Also in February 2010, the ClustrMaps widget was installed. Every month or so the graphic representations on the world map will be reconfigured to show the countries from which the blog is being read. There are no privacy concerns with this as the only data we can access is country stats but those stats may be of interest to readers so a pie chart has been produced.
The readership ratios are bound to vary in relation to issues in those regions. For instance, if this data was available for the period where we wrote about the Icepak explosion, the New Zealand numbers would be higher.
If one takes the monthly readership of 10,000, it is easy to get an idea of real numbers.
An American workers’ compensation blog, Workers Comp Insider, posted a fascinating article on the workplace-related traumatic brain injuries. The article discusses a new research paper by Peter Rousmaniere – “Gray Matters: The Employer’s Role in Brain Injury Recovery”.
The original article in Risk Management magazine is also a good example of clear writing on a complex matter.
Clearly, workers who receive a severe brain injury should not be shuffled away into the Never-Never as is traditional. There are counselling and rehabilitation techniques available that have originated from many sources, including contemporary wars. Continue reading “How the treatment of traumatic brain injuries has changed and the positive role of workers’ compensation”
If you like what you are reading on the SafetyAtWorkBlog, consider contracting us to supply you with safety news and exclusive, informed commentary for your own blog, safety newsletter or other publication. Continue reading “If you like what you’re reading below…….”