The Safety of Work
By David Provan
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Episodes: 130
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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 Lab at Griffith University as they break down the latest safety research and provide you with practical management tips.
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Ep. 129: How can we use swapping as a strategy for decluttering?
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 128: What are the attributes of an effective supervisor?
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Ep. 127: Should safety education focus on hard skills
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Ep. 126: Is it time to stop talking about safety culture?
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Ep. 125: Does ChatGPT provide good safety advice?
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Ep. 124 Is safety a key value driver for business?
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Ep. 123: Is risk a science or a feeling?
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Ep. 122: What makes a good presentation?
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Ep. 121 Is safety good for business?
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Ep. 120: What does the literature say about safety professionals?
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May 26, 2024 |
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Ep. 119: Should we ask about contributors rather than causes?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Ep. 118 How should we account for technological accidents?
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Ep. 117: Can digital twins help improve the safety of work?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Ep 116. Do audits improve the safety of work?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Ep. 115: Why are subcontractors at higher risk?
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Ep. 114 How do we manage safety for work from home workers?
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 113 When are seemingly impossible goals good for performance?
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Ep 112 How biased are incident investigators?
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 111 Are management walkarounds effective?
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 110 Can personality tests predict safety performance?
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 109 Do safety performance indicators mean the same thing to different stakeholders?
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Ep. 108 Could a 4 day work week improve employee well-being?
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 107 What research is needed to implement the Safework Australia WHS strategy?
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 106 Is it possible to teach critical thinking?
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 105 How can organisations learn faster?
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 104 How can we get better at using measurement?
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 103 Should we be happy when our people speak out about safety?
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Ep. 102 What's the right strategy when we can't manage safety as well as we'd like to?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 101 When should incidents cause us to question risk assessments?
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Ep. 100 Can major accidents be prevented?
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Ep.99 When is dropping tools the right thing to do for safety?
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Ep.98 What can we learn from the Harwood experiments?
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Episode 97: Should we link safety performance to bonus pay?
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Episode 96: Why should we be cautious about too much clarity?
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Ep.95 Do Take-5 risk assessments contribute to safe work?
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Ep.94 What makes a quality leadership engagement for safety?
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Ep.93 Do the benefits of Lifesaving rules outweigh the negative consequences?
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Ep.92 How do different career paths affect the roles and training needs of safety practitioners?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Ep.91 How can we tell when safety research is C.R.A.A.P?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Ep.90 Does formal safety management displace operational knowledge?
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Ep.89 When is the process more important than the outcome?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Ep.88 Why do organisations sometimes make bad decisions?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Ep.87 What exactly is Systems Thinking?
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Ep.86 Do we have adequate models of accident causation?
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Ep.85 Why does safety get harder as systems get safer?
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Ep.84 How do orgasnisations balance reliable performance and spontaneous innovation?
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Ep.83 Does the language used in investigations influence the recommendations?
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Ep.82 Why do we audit so much?
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Ep.81 How does simulation training develop Safety II capabilities?
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Ep.80 What is safety clutter?
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Ep. 79 How do new employees learn about safety?
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Episode 78: Do shock tactics work?
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Ep.77 What does good look like?
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Ep.76 What is Due Diligence?
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Ep.75 How are stop work decisions made?
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Ep.74 Is a capacity index a good replacement for incident-count safety metrics?
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May 30, 2021 |
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Ep.73 Does pointing and calling improve action reliability?
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May 16, 2021 |
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Ep.72 How visible is high-vis clothing?
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May 02, 2021 |
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Ep.71 Do double checks improve safety?
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Ep.70 Is OHS management a profession?
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Ep.69 Do safety in design processes change the design?
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Ep. 68 Are safety cases an impending crisis?
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Ep.67 How to constructively resolve an argument about safety theory?
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Ep.66 What is the full story of just culture (part 3)?
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Ep.65 What is the full story of just culture (part 2)?
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Ep, 64 What is the full story of just culture (part 1)?
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Ep. 63 How subjective is technical risk assessment?
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Ep.62 What are the benefits of job safety analysis?
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Ep.61 Is Swiss cheese helpful for understanding accident causation?
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Ep.60 How does Safety II reimagine the role of a safety professional?
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Ep. 59 What is the full story behind safety I and safety II (Part 3)?
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Ep.58 What is the full story behind safety I and safety II (Part 2)?
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Ep.57 What is the full story behind safety I and safety II (Part 1)?
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Ep.56 Does Goal Based Regulation increase bureaucracy?
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Ep.55 Are injury rates statistically invalid?
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Ep.54 Do safety communication campaigns reduce injuries?
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Ep.53 Do parachutes prevent injuries and deaths?
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Ep.52 What is the relationship between safety climate and injuries?
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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Ep.51 How do experts manage fuzzy role boundaries?
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 50 What is the relationship between safety work and the safety of work
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Ep.49 What exactly is a peer reviewed journal paper?
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Ep.48 What are the missing links between investigating incidents and learning from incidents?
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Ep. 47 Does individual blame lessen the ability to learn from failure?
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Ep.46 Is risk compensation a real thing?
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Ep.45 Why do we need complex models to explain simple work?
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Ep.44 What do we mean when we talk about safety culture?
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Ep 43: How is leadership development experienced?
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Ep.42 How do safety leadership behaviours influence worker motivation for safety?
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Ep.41 How do ethnographic interviews work?
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Ep.40 When should we trust expert opinions about risk?
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Ep.39 Do accident investigations actually find the root causes?
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Ep.38 Can we get ready for automation by studying non-automated systems?
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Ep.37 How do audits influence intentions to improve practice?
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Ep.36 How do we tell the difference between theories and fads in safety?
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Ep. 35 What is the relationship between leading and lagging indicators?
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Ep. 34 How can practitioners find and access research?
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Ep.33 Can institutional logics help us move beyond safety culture?
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Ep.32 If safety emerges from frontline work, then what are the regulators supposed to do?
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Ep.31 Do pre-surgery checklists improve patient safety outcomes?
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Ep.30 What do safety professionals believe about themselves?
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Ep.29 Does manual handling training work?
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May 31, 2020 |
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Ep.28 How does coordination work in incident response teams?
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May 24, 2020 |
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Ep.27 What Makes Teams Effective?
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May 17, 2020 |
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Ep.26 Is good safety leadership just good leadership?
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May 10, 2020 |
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Ep.25 Why don't workers use reporting systems?
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May 03, 2020 |
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Ep.24 How did David Woods discover the theory of graceful extensibility?
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Ep.23 How do safety professionals influence?
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Ep.22 Are facts or stories more effective for changing attitudes?
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Ep.21 How foreseeable was the Dreamworld accident?
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Ep.20 What is reality-based safety science?
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Ep.19 Is virtual reality safety training more effective?
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Ep.18 Do Powerpoint slides count as a safety hazard?
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 17 What did Heinrich really say?
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Mar 07, 2020 |
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Ep.16 What can we learn from the Brady report?
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 15 Should we give prizes for safety?
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Ep.14 What are the characteristics of a High Reliability Healthcare Organisation?
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Ep. 13 Are there more accidents on friday the thirteenth?
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Ep.12 Is adopting a zero harm policy good for safety?
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Ep.11 How are trade off decisions made between production and safety?
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Ep.10 What helps and hinders stopping work for safety?
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Ep.9 Is there safety in numbers?
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Ep.8 Do risk matrices help us make better decisions?
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Ep.7 What is the relationship between safety leadership beliefs and practices?
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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Ep.6 What is the cost of accepting the cheapest tender?
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Ep. 5 Can increasing uncertainty improve safety?
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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Ep.4 What is the relationship between trust and safety?
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Ep.3 How do you know if your safety team is a positive influence on your safety climate?
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 2 Why do people break rules?
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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Ep. 1 When do behavioural safety interventions work?
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Ep. 0 Who are we?
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Nov 11, 2019 |