Andina Risk and Safety Services

If your company’s accident causation model looks like a row of dominoes you may be lead to believe that accidents, incidents, and bad safety performance are the result of unsafe act and unsafe conditions., both of which are ultimately the responsibility of people ,as people are involved in every step from design, construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning

The Mercury Newspaper reports that Jim Cox (the Minister for Infrastructure) recently visited Sweden to examine their road system, which has long been held up as a model of excellence in reducing road deaths and injuries.

“Organisational culture” seems to be an elusive concept that evades strict definition and identification, yet we all know what the culture is in any organisation we encounter and can describe its characteristics. A subset of “organisational culture” is “safety culture”, which is not immune to the same vagaries and adds another layer of abstractions.
Given [...]

There is a sign at the gym I go to that it typical of many safety signs; it reads:

“Caution: Floor may be slippery when wet”
There are two main flaws with this particular sign:
1) The language is interesting/wrong. The floor “may be” slippery, but were not sure and if it is, then it’s only when [...]

In Brian Green’s book “The Elegant Universe” he describes two views of the universe; one that deals with Newton’s laws of gravity and Einstein’s theory of relativity, and the vanishingly small world of quantum physics. The two models seem correct in their given context, but both cannot be right as they have fundamental and [...]

Safety is more than just ensuring you have the correct signs in place and everyone is wearing their hard hats – it is an integral part to successful design, construction, commissioning, maintenance and management of any endeavour. Safety’s true aim is to control and reduce loss caused by damage to plant, machinery, interruption to production, [...]

The Tasmanian Workplace Health and Safety Act of 1995 mandates that employers provide a safe working place for all employees. Specifically, section 9.1 states:
(1) An employer must, in respect of each employee employed by the employer, ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that the employee is, while at work, safe from injury and risks [...]