Vulnerability Enhancement Factors applied to Risk Assessment – looking beyond
Many years ago, I was part of a team involved in undertaking a risk assessment across a region which was incurring multiple fatalities. The team came to the view that, a key step in the process of assessing hazards needs to include a process for considering...
Adapting Safety in a Complex World
VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The notion of VUCA was introduced by the U.S. Army War College to describe the more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous...
ZERO Harm – what’s all the fuss?
There has been some debate about the credibility of having a ZERO Harm Vision. Many safety practitioners certainly grapple with it. There is this perception that ZERO HARM means zero injuries, zero incidents, zero risk etc. There is also the belief that ZERO Harm is...