State and business PPPs are ‘outsourcing’ governance and sheq culture
May 3rd, 2012Growing public private partnership (PPP) business in Africa is ‘outsourcing’ occupational safety, health, environment and quality (sheq) culture, corporate governance, and sustainability.
Risk tolerance dictated by human Hierachy of Needs
April 22nd, 2012We make large investments in health and safety systems, but we should recognise fundamental human behaviour factors that make our systems work or fail. Personal transport is one of these crucial influences.
Defence and mining need schizophrenic culture change
March 12th, 2012Defence and mining sustain dual cultures: one for annual reports, health and safety toolbox talks and ‘zero harm’ signage, another for underground work, night shift, and production bonuses.
Killed USA Massey Montcoal miners had lung disease
January 26th, 2012Of the 29 USA Massey Energy Montcoal Upper Big Branch coal miners who died in the gas explosion disaster in West Virginia, 17 had pneumoconiosis, and the mine was known to break ventilation laws.
Employers and inspectors killed these 29 miners
December 5th, 2011Evidence at the New Zealand Pike River Royal Commission investigating a mining disaster that killed 29 people, prove that some employers and some inspectors are not motivated by safety.
Stress management is a sheq job
November 7th, 2011The cost of workplace stress in terms of safety, health, quality and productivity is phenomenal, and the direct link is proven by occupational medicine.
Why workers break safety rules
October 14th, 2011OHS legislation worldwide require safet workplaces and procedures, and employers generally comply by building ‘safety walls’, even recruiting supposedly ‘safe people’, but many workers break rules and ‘accidents’ continue. Let us ask ‘why’ five times.
Safety leadership roles in safety culture
October 14th, 2011A great variety of safety leadership ‘recipes’ for changing organisational safety culture, indicate that many researchers and practitioners have each found some aspects of an elusive process.
Compliance is the last refuge of sheq culture failure
October 2nd, 2011We are batting for the wrong side when using health, safety and enviro legislation to leverage corporate culture and labour behaviour towards compliance and beyond.
Sheq compliance kills workers
August 29th, 2011Some employers use the term ‘compliance’ like a ‘get out of jail’ card in a Monopoly game, yet a compliance attitude and corporate culture is likely to kill workers.
Massey Energy disaster reveals ‘fake’ safety
July 11th, 2011I was distressed, though not surprised to read the USA Massey Energy investigation report in May 2011. The conclusions are damning of enforcement tolerance and industrial culture.