Last week I was invited to speak at the inaugural NSW Regional Safety Conference & Expo in Newcastle New South Wales. I was able to chat with the organizer of the conference, safety professional Sarah-Jane Dunford about the conference and the Hunter Safety Awards that were on that night. The audio of my chat is also available at Podbean.
Category: podcast
Acts of God, the morality of safety – interview with Sidney Dekker
The latest episode of Safety At Work Talks is a return to the sequence of interviews with Professor Sidney Dekker. In April 2017, Dekker published a book called The End of Heaven which discusses suffering. This book has a very different tone from his previous books and is intriguing.
The breadth of the discussion was also surprising with concepts and references rarely talked about in relation to occupational health and safety, such as morality, Acts of God, train disasters and the Bible. If this sounds heavy, it is useful to follow the discussion that leads to this statement from Dekker:
“Safety Culture is the new Human Error”.
This latest episode is available at
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/safetyatworkblog/safety-at-works-talks-episode-03
Podbean: https://safetyoz.podbean.com/
Safety At Work Talks podcast now on iTunes
SafetyAtWorkBlog’s new podcast series “Safety At Work Talks” is now available through iTunes at http://apple.co/2kY23bR
The first episode is a conversation with Professor Sidney Dekker.
Safety At Work Talks podcast launched
The popularity of Australian podcasting about workplace safety is increasing with a personable Sydney occupational health and safety (OHS) lawyer launching one this month. SafetyAtWorkBlog is also joining that growth with the Safety At Work Talks podcast this week.
SafetyAtWorkBlog originally podcasted a decade ago through iTunes. I participated in a podcast series last year called Cabbage Salad and Safety. Safety At Work Talks is going to be a series that complements the SafetyAtWorkBlog by providing exclusive interviews with prominent safety people and academics.
Safety At Work Talks already has a series of episodes recorded with Professor Sidney Dekker. These will cover
- Dekker’s Safety Differently documentary,
- Dekker’s April 2017 book – “The End of Heaven”,
- Dekker’s new (November 2017) book – “The Safety Anarchist – Relying on human expertise and innovation; reducing bureaucracy and compliance“, and
- A brief chat about how Just Culture has changed.
The first of these episodes is Professor Sidney Dekker talking to me, Kevin Jones, about his new documentary “Safety Differently”. You can hear it below or at this link: https://soundcloud.com/safetyatworkblog/safetyatworktalks-dekker-doco-101017
Safety At Work Talks will be available for listening through a number of podcast platforms, including the SafetyAtWorkBlog site:
Podbean – https://safetyoz.podbean.com/
SoundCloud – https://soundcloud.com/safetyatworkblog
Configuring the safety profession for the future
In support of this year’s election of new Board members to the Safety Institute of Australia, the Safety on Tap podcast has granted each nominee ten minutes to introduce themselves. Some of these episodes raised the following points of interest:
- The need to change the demographics of the occupational health and safety (OHS) profession to reflect society.
- Any organisation that is undergoing change must acknowledge that even though it may be replacing “old school” thinking and structures, sustainable progress is best achieved by accepting the future is built by “standing on the shoulders of giants”.
- Just because an organisation or profession has been structured one way in the past does not mean that structure remains applicable for the future.
Continue reading “Configuring the safety profession for the future”
Psychology, Leadership and Jonathan Lincolne
Episode 47 of Andrew Barrett’s Safety On Tap podcast consisted of an interview with Jonathan Lincolne of Pockets of Brilliance. Several comments are of note.
Psychology
Around the 47 minute mark, Lincolne is asked about the level of psychological knowledge that the occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals should possess. Lincolne refreshingly describes himself as a skeptic about a lot of the recent psychological discussion, particularly the promotion of neuroscience.
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Me! Me! Me! – OHS needs to grow up for the new world structure
There is much general discussion about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Future of Work and other speculative work-related concepts. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum wrote:
“We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society.”
For the purposes of this blog “work” is the focus and health and safety the discussion points. Occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals have a unique opportunity to participate in the early stages of this societal disruption. But there is also a risk that OHS could miss out. Continue reading “Me! Me! Me! – OHS needs to grow up for the new world structure”