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The Safety of Work

Do you know the science behind what works and doesn’t work when it comes to keeping people safe in your organisation? Each week join Dr Drew Rae and Dr David Provan from the Safety Science Innovation... Read more

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Ep.11 How are trade off decisions made between production and safety?

Ep.11 How are trade off decisions made between production and safety?

We use the paper, Articulating the Differences Between Safety and Resilience, in order to frame our chat.Topics:How to n... Read more

26 Jan 2020

33mins

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Ep. 2 Why do people break rules?

Ep. 2 Why do people break rules?

Topics:How to figure out which rules will be effective.We use the paper Catching Them at It as a framework for our discu... Read more

24 Nov 2019

30mins

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Ep.8 Do risk matrices help us make better decisions?

Ep.8 Do risk matrices help us make better decisions?

In order to guide our discussion, we will use the paper Further Thoughts on the Utilities of Risk Matrices.Topics:The ri... Read more

5 Jan 2020

35mins

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Ep.7 What is the relationship between safety leadership beliefs and practices?

Ep.7 What is the relationship between safety leadership beliefs and practices?

Tune in to hear us discuss the paper Site Managers and Safety Leadership in the Offshore Gas and Oil Industry and its su... Read more

29 Dec 2019

46mins

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Ep. 5 Can increasing uncertainty improve safety?

Ep. 5 Can increasing uncertainty improve safety?

Tune in to hear us talk about this topic in the context of the paper we chose to reference this week.Topics:Our safety p... Read more

15 Dec 2019

31mins

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Ep.4 What is the relationship between trust and safety?

Ep.4 What is the relationship between trust and safety?

Topics:The relationship between safety and trust is harder to define than one would expect.We use the works of one docto... Read more

8 Dec 2019

32mins

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Ep.3 How do you know if your safety team is a positive influence on your safety climate?

Ep.3 How do you know if your safety team is a positive influence on your safety climate?

Topics:We often talk about how leaders affect safety, but we never think of the team.Using the research paper Improving ... Read more

1 Dec 2019

31mins

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Ep.9 Is there safety in numbers?

Ep.9 Is there safety in numbers?

We use the 2019 paper, Safety in Numbers, to frame this week’s discussion.Topics:The amount of exposure increases the am... Read more

12 Jan 2020

28mins

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Ep.6 What is the cost of accepting the cheapest tender?

Ep.6 What is the cost of accepting the cheapest tender?

Tune in to hear us talk about how the drive to reduce costs can negatively impact safety. We frame this week’s discussio... Read more

22 Dec 2019

29mins

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Ep.14 What are the characteristics of a High Reliability Healthcare Organisation?

Ep.14 What are the characteristics of a High Reliability Healthcare Organisation?

To frame our discussion, we use the common High Reliability Organization Theory. A few people have authored papers on th... Read more

16 Feb 2020

38mins

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Ep.10 What helps and hinders stopping work for safety?

Ep.10 What helps and hinders stopping work for safety?

The paper we use to frame today’s discussion is We Can Stop Work, but Then Nothing Gets Done.Topics:Why do workers not s... Read more

19 Jan 2020

42mins

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Ep.12 Is adopting a zero harm policy good for safety?

Ep.12 Is adopting a zero harm policy good for safety?

We use the papers, Zero Accident, Vision-Based Strategies in Organizations; Zero Vision, Enlightenment, and Religion; an... Read more

1 Feb 2020

37mins

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Ep. 13 Are there more accidents on friday the thirteenth?

Ep. 13 Are there more accidents on friday the thirteenth?

To frame our discussion, we decided to reference a few papers. The papers we use are Females Do Not Have More Road Accid... Read more

9 Feb 2020

31mins

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Ep.21 How foreseeable was the Dreamworld accident?

Ep.21 How foreseeable was the Dreamworld accident?

Topics:Divulging our potential conflicts of interest.Hindsight bias.The four different mental processes used in assessin... Read more

5 Apr 2020

1hr 7mins

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Ep.20 What is reality-based safety science?

Ep.20 What is reality-based safety science?

We have just co-authored a paper with two other researchers and it examines the big picture of safety science. We don’t ... Read more

29 Mar 2020

59mins

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Ep.19 Is virtual reality safety training more effective?

Ep.19 Is virtual reality safety training more effective?

We chose to use two papers to frame our discussion. Those papers are Construction Safety Training Using Immersive Virtua... Read more

21 Mar 2020

34mins

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Ep.18 Do Powerpoint slides count as a safety hazard?

Ep.18 Do Powerpoint slides count as a safety hazard?

We use the paper When Redundant On-Screen Text in Multimedia Technical Instruction can Interfere with Learning to frame ... Read more

15 Mar 2020

37mins

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Ep. 17 What did Heinrich really say?

Ep. 17 What did Heinrich really say?

Tune in to hear Carsten discuss his research into Heinrich’s work.Topics:The impetus behind Carsten’s paper.What his pap... Read more

7 Mar 2020

44mins

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Ep.16 What can we learn from the Brady report?

Ep.16 What can we learn from the Brady report?

Tune in to hear us discuss the lessons learned from this important report.Topics:Why the Brady Report was made.The pros ... Read more

1 Mar 2020

53mins

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Ep. 15 Should we give prizes for safety?

Ep. 15 Should we give prizes for safety?

To frame our discussion, we use the papers. Motivating the Workforce and The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message... Read more

23 Feb 2020

35mins

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