A new survey on CEO attitudes to safety has been released by Peter Wagner & Associates entitled “Safety – A Wicked Problem, Leading CEOs discuss their views on OHS transformation“. There is some interesting information in report but Wagner is being generous in the report’s title. There are some CEOs who seem knowledgeable on safety management who … Continue reading “A wicked OHS problem in more ways than one”
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 … Continue reading “Blog increases readership by over 6,000 in one month”
RMIT University has been active in OHS education for some time and it is hoped that the OHS lecturers might wander down the corridors and knock on the door of Professor Bruce Wilson. On 28 May 2010, RMIT university launches its European Union Centre (EUC). According a media notice about the launch, the EUC intends … Continue reading “EU and Australia improve academic links – again”
The question in the title of this article came about from the release of a fabulous new book by LexisNexis- Butterworths – Australian Labour Law – Text, Cases & Commentary, 5th edition. Through my introductory look at the book, it seems that occupational health and safety gets around half a page in a book of over 1200 … Continue reading “Is OHS part of Labour Law?”
For years, safety professionals have whinged about their profession and their skills not receiving the attention of Chief Executive Officers and board members. They take some solace in the occasional missive that executives understand leadership and, by extension, safety leadership but the reality is that OHS professionals do not understand CEOs. CEOs are Olympian Gods and OHS professionals live … Continue reading “Gods and Leaders – the fantasy distraction of the safety profession”
The last sixty years’ of research into the effects of hours of work, shiftwork, associated workload, fatigue and affects on social life and families has produced many findings, but no general detailed agreements. There are interesting debates about who and what to research, what methods to use, what to measure and how to interpret results. … Continue reading “All exposure standards must consider hours of work”
Tom von Aschwege has provided SafetyAtWorkBlog with a long article that was intended as a comment on recent articles concerning the safety culture of BP. The comment deserved to be an article in order to provide more prominence to von Aschwege’s views. Links, where appropriate, have been added and format has been tweaked. “I came by Ross … Continue reading “BP, safety culture and integrity management”