facilitated some team building interactive learning for OHS team members and believe such learning has significant benefit for both established and new teams. Teams are small groups of people with complementary skills who work together as a unit to achieve a common purpose for which they hold themselves collectively accountable. My web site ohschange.com.au discusses a number of safety related issues. An ex-manager of mine, who has a way with words, says the trouble with management and safety is that management and safety professionals sometimes engage in acts of public masturbation! I apologise if anyone finds the foregoing offensive but my belief is it is an admittedly crude, but accurate, way of describing some of the things I have seen happen in both safety and general management. The last thing I will leave you with are risk assessment and Zero Harm approaches to safety. I seriously question the effectiveness of both approaches and believe the safety people of the future will be amazed at why we believed in them so much. It will be interesting to hear what people are saying in 20 years time. I would like to finish by wishing you all the best. Nothing worthwhile is easy, but despite the occasional set back I have found OHS to be exceptionally rewarding and you end up meeting some great people. I have found using project teams has been a fantastic way of driving significant safety change. A final bit of advice is to have a well-developed bulldust detector; by the hell you will need it! The permanently life altering personal damage occurrences (Accidents) I have been associated Robotham Introduction During my 38 years involvement in OHS I have been associated with 13 fatalities, a case of paraplegia, a serious burns case and a major stress incident. The following are brief details of the permanently life altering personal damage occurrences (Accidents) I have been associated with and some close calls. With many it was good luck, not good management that more serious life altering personal damage did not occur. There are lessons to be learnt from personal damage occurrences, the reality is that these lessons are often not widely communicated and acted upon. We do not have a National system for reporting, recording and analysing permanently life altering personal damage occurrences, this seems to me to be a priority if we are serious about managing OHS. Taxonomies of industry personal damage occurrence experience are a fertile avenue for improvement.
facilitated some team building interactive learning for OHS team members and believe such learning has significant benefit for both established and new teams. Teams are small groups of people with complementary skills who work together as a unit to achieve a common purpose for which they hold themselves collectively accountable. My web site ohschange.com.au discusses a number of safety related issues. An ex-manager of mine, who has a way with words, says the trouble with management and safety is that management and safety professionals sometimes engage in acts of public masturbation! I apologise if anyone finds the foregoing offensive but my belief is it is an admittedly crude, but accurate, way of describing some of the things I have seen happen in both safety and general management. The last thing I will leave you with are risk assessment and Zero Harm approaches to safety. I seriously question the effectiveness of both approaches and believe the safety people of the future will be amazed at why we believed in them so much. It will be interesting to hear what people are saying in 20 years time. I would like to finish by wishing you all the best. Nothing worthwhile is easy, but despite the occasional set back I have found OHS to be exceptionally rewarding and you end up meeting some great people. I have found using project teams has been a fantastic way of driving significant safety change. A final bit of advice is to have a well-developed bulldust detector; by the hell you will need it! The permanently life altering personal damage occurrences (Accidents) I have been associated Robotham Introduction During my 38 years involvement in OHS I have been associated with 13 fatalities, a case of paraplegia, a serious burns case and a major stress incident. The following are brief details of the permanently life altering personal damage occurrences (Accidents) I have been associated with and some close calls. With many it was good luck, not good management that more serious life altering personal damage did not occur. There are lessons to be learnt from personal damage occurrences, the reality is that these lessons are often not widely communicated and acted upon. We do not have a National system for reporting, recording and analysing permanently life altering personal damage occurrences, this seems to me to be a priority if we are serious about managing OHS. Taxonomies of industry personal damage occurrence experience are a fertile avenue for improvement.
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