5 minutes05/13/2020
At Quentic, we recently published our Safety Management Trend Report for 2020. In the last chapter, our experts shared the innovators and trailblazers of the occupational health and safety field. Whether you are a safety specialist, student, manager or CEO with an awareness of health & safety – anyone can benefit from browsing through this collection of people who are shaping our industry. We have linked exciting books, PDFs, videos and podcasts by and about these people.
This paper explores how members of a team can overcome the interpersonal risks they face every day at work to help themselves, their teams and their organizations engage in collective learning.
Curt Nickisch interviews Amy Edmondson for the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. Topics include psychological safety and how to create a fearless organization.
In this paper, David Provan and colleagues David Woods, Sidney Dekker and Drew Rae define the two modes of safety management and explore the challenges safety professionals face when changing their roles to embrace Safety-II. When should safety professionals re-enforce alignment, and when should they support cutting-edge adaptations?
David Provan and Drew Rae use their paper, A Manifesto for Reality-Based Safety Science, to frame their discussion on big-picture safety science.
The terms ‘culture’ and particularly ‘safety culture’ are widely used, yet still misunderstood. Professor Andrew Hopkins examines the use of these terms under a critical lens and makes six propositions for the future.
Two broadly contrasting methods of assuring safety in hazardous industries can be identified at present: risk management and rule compliance. Debates about the relative merits of these approaches has been ongoing for years, but we are currently experiencing a resurgence of interest. Andrew Hopkins joins the debate with the aim of re-emphasizing the importance of rule compliance.
Andrew Hopkins has contributed to the OHS Body of Knowledge, the collective knowledge that should be shared by generalist OHS professionals to provide a sound basis for understanding the causation and control of work-related fatalities, injuries, diseases and poor health. Watch him speak about concepts like "safety culture", "risk" or "reasonably practicable" and find out if they are to be dismissed or if they indeed hold greater value for OHS practitioners.
Daniel Hummerdal questions why the potential of people is so often overlooked, disregarded, discarded and even disdained when it comes to safety? He then provides two potential answers for why people so often are considered the problem and outlines some steps toward making people into the solution.
Andrew Barett interviews Daniel Hummerdal to find out about Worksafe New Zealand and his role as a chief advisor for health and safety innovation there. He sets out to learn, not just from a regulatory perspective, or just in New Zealand – and delivers a podcast jam-packed with translatable insights.
Dr Drew Rae and Dr David Provan from the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University discuss whether it’s wise to adopt a “zero-harm” policy and if this outlook is actually beneficial to improving safety.
Most of human history is dictated by rare yet highly consequential events (Black Swans). At The Pod Delusion's Third Birthday, Dr. Drew Rae looks at this topic and how it can be applied to risk assessment. He gives cheering insights into his daily life as as a risk engineer who looks at severity and likelihood and deals with doubtful experts and worst-case scenarios.
Dr. Drew Rae and David Provan argue that safety work is primarily a performance rather than goal-directed behavior. It may contribute to the safety of work, but this is only part of its purpose. Their case is presented as a model for organizational safety activity that represents safety as a special case of ‘institutional work’
