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Safety With Minimal Jargon: Tim D’Ath’s Refreshing Approach

Late last year, Tim D’Ath added to the occupational health and safety management (OHS) literature with a modern, open-minded (and short) book called “Humanising Safety”. His perspective cuts across many of the heady discussions of Safety I vs. Safety II, safety cultures, and organisational versus individual approaches… I found his clarity of advice refreshing, as he focused on core harm prevention principles while acknowledging the difficulty of communicating these principles to employers who have been taught to view OHS as a nuisance to be avoided whenever possible.

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Breaking the Silence: Dekker’s Call for Authentic Voice in OHS

Any new book from Sidney Dekker is worth reading. His latest is called “Safety Theater – How the Desire for Perfection Drives Compliance Clutter, Inauthenticity, and Accidents”. I am not sure that this book, the third in a series, offers solutions, but it reframes many of the contemporary perspectives on occupational health and health and safety (OHS), and with some intriguing connections.

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Changing the Unchangeable? – Reforming Culture in the Australian Defence Forces

Many people in Australia are asking why any woman would consider a career in the military, given the considerable risk of sexual harassment, abuse and assaults. Occupational health and safety (OHS) and risk management disciplines often draw on many of the risk assessment processes and principles from the defence forces; however, there appear to be significant and intransigent risks in that sector.

Note: This article mentions suicide

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Stakeholder vs. Shareholder: The Capitalism Clash Shaping Safer Workplaces

Elements of Andrew Hopkins’ latest book have been spinning in my head for a couple of weeks as they echo my thoughts on occupational health and safety (OHS) over the last few years. I cannot shake his discussion of stakeholder capitalism and shareholder capitalism. These two elements of business management are crucial to our understanding of OHS and how we should proceed, particularly in relation to psychological health.

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Andrew Hopkins article translated for Gen Alpha

Last week, I wrote an article about Andrew Hopkins’ new safety leadership book about Boeing’s management style. It was a popular article, but this last weekend I wondered if I was talking about it in a way that failed to engage with younger readers and potential subscribers. So I asked an Artificial Intelligence program to translate the Hopkins article into language commonly used by Generation Alpha. Below is that translation (some I don’t understand), which offers an interesting linguistic contrast.

New Book Alert: Andrew Hopkins Just Called Out the Corporate Safety Scam 🚨

Andrew Hopkins just dropped a new book, and it’s basically him going full savage on how modern companies—especially Boeing—put profits over people. It’s short (only 81 pages), but it hits HARD. Like, “how did we let this happen?” hard.

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Boeing’s failures illustrate fundamental flaws in modern business values

Andrew Hopkins’ new safety and management book has landed. It is perhaps his most powerful critique of modern safety-related corporate management as he identifies “big picture” socioeconomic and political factors that directly affect executive decisions. By examining the 737 MAX aeroplane crisis of over 340 customer deaths that Boeing could have prevented, Hopkins discusses the hazardous managerial ideologies that have been idolised and are likely to be present in most companies created in the last 40 years.

The book has aviation in the title, but this is far more than a book about aeroplanes.

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Outcomes of an agriculture OHS roundtable

New South Wales recently ran its annual roundtable for the agriculture sector, focusing on workplace health and safety. A joint media release from the Ministers for Agriculture and Work Health and Safety, Tara Moriarty and Sophie Cotsis, respectively, acknowledged that:

“Agriculture remains one of Australia’s most dangerous industries, with consistently high rates of workplace fatalities and serious injuries. In 2024, SafeWork NSW responded to 12 workplace fatalities in the agricultural industry in NSW.”

But what was the outcome of the roundtable?

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