Author: planitsafe

An Integrative Literature Review: What Are the Barriers that Stop Organisations from Learning the Lessons Highlighted in Serious Incident Investigations?

My Integrative Review article, co written by Dr Manikam Pillay of University of Newcastle, is now available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-60525-8_63

Abstract

It has been suggested that we have moved into an adaptive age of safety and that one of the key accident prevention strategies in this age is that of ‘organisational learning’. Effective safety management in this age requires organisations to investigate and learn from (major/serious) incidents. This paper aims to outline some of the most significant barriers to organisational learning following major events, through an integrative review, by reviewing the current literature around incident reporting. This review identified five key themes in the published literature, and a gap between knowledge and actual practice in industry. As a community of safety professionals there is much we can do to close this gap, through empirical studies aimed to further understanding and break down some of these learning barriers.

978-3-319-60525-8

Gillman M., Pillay M. (2018) An Integrative Literature Review: What Are the Barriers that Stop Organisations from Learning the Lessons Highlighted in Serious Incident Investigations?. In: Arezes P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 604. Springer, Cham

The Role of the Health & Safety Representative

A colleague of mine Sarita McLean from Bedrock Solutions, is running a course in Greymouth.  Anyone interested can click on the links below to register.

Title:                             The Role of the Health and Safety Representative
Date:                            Tuesday 20 June, 2017
Time:                            8:30am to 4:30pm
Venue:                         The Ashley Hotel Greymouth
74 Tasman St, Karoro, Greymouth
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Parking:                       Available on site
Catering:                     Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon tea supplied
Workshop Fee:            $385 + GST per person

Registration:                CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Overview:
This workshop takes an in-depth look at the role and responsibilities of health and safety representatives as per the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and the Health and Safety at Work (Worker Engagement, Participation and Representation) Regulation 2016.

The learning outcomes include understanding:

  • The role and functions of the Health and Safety Representative under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and its Regulations;
  • The role of a Health and Safety Representative as an advocate for workers;
  • The obligations of a PCBU and WorkSafe New Zealand towards the Health and Safety Representative;
  • The risk management process and the importance of communicating with workers and management;
  • The powers and obligations that a health and safety representative has in terms of issuing a provisional improvement notice (PIN) and how and when to direct a worker to cease unsafe work.

 Unit Standard Outcome:
Unit Standard 29315 – Describe the role and functions of the Health and Safety Representative in a New Zealand workplace (L3, C2)

 Who should attend:
Health and Safety Representatives, members of health and safety committees; supervisors; managers and anyone with an interest in health and safety.

Registration:           CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

World Day for Safety and Health at Work – 28 April 2017

Tomorrow, Friday 28th April is an important event for all of us, as it is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers Memorial Day.

This is a day to consider our own health and safety standards and performance, and reflect on the fatalities which have already occurred so far in New Zealand in 2017.

To mark this occasion, many companies around the world will be taking the lead in workplace safety.

Some examples include:

  • honouring the memory of those who have died at work and stopping for a moment of silence
  • promoting World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers’ Memorial Day in your workplace:
    • organising a morning or afternoon tea to talk about work health and safety
    • arranging for a safety expert to speak at your workplace
    • attending a local workers’ memorial event with your colleagues or family.

I invite and encourage you all to participate in this important day in any way that you can.

Already this year, from January 1st to March 16th ten New Zealanders died at work. This is ten too many!  My thoughts to the family and friends of these men and women who went to work and never came home.

Every year in NZ almost one person per week dies at work.   This is a tragedy for all New Zealanders…

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* 2017 figures are year to date 16 March 2017 (Last updated 21 March 2017)

Source:  http://www.worksafe.govt.nz/worksafe/research/health-and-safety-data/workplace-fatalities/workplace-fatalities-by-year

Don’t let health and safety just be a paperwork or “lip service” exercise.  How would you feel if your son or daughter didn’t come home today after work?

As individuals and as a country we must do better – we all deserve to come home from work every day.

Human Factors whitepaper available…

“Recognising both the lack of current standardisation or established good practice in this area and the rapid growth in the use of Bowtie Analysis, the white paper provides 33 recommendations on how human factors issues should be treated in barrier management in general, and in Bowtie Analysis in particular.

Go to the CIEHF website at www.ergonomics.org.uk/learn/barrier-management, where you can read more about barrier management and download a copy of the paper.”

Source:  Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (UK) at http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/learn/barrier-management/

Tragedy for fire fighting hero in Christchurch

“…a helicopter pilot and war hero died fighting a fire yesterday. Ex-SAS serviceman and Waimakariri local David Steven Askin, 38, died in a chopper crash near the Sugarloaf car park in the Port Hills just after 2pm.

He was pouring water on an inferno that had engulfed 600 hectares near Christchurch when the Squirrel chopper he was in went down. Askin died at the scene.”

Source:  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11800854