INSIGHTS
Ideas about health and safety
worth thinking about.
Practical thinking about risk, work, leadership and the way organisations actually operate.
Not everything here will give you an answer.
Some of it might give you a better question.
That can be more useful.
FEATURED THINKING
More health and safety
isn't necessarily better
health and safety.
More procedures, more forms, more controls and more reporting can look like improvement.
But activity isn't the same thing as effectiveness.
The better question is whether what we're doing helps people understand risk, make better decisions and control what actually matters.
EXPLORE
Thinking from the messy reality of work.
01 — WORK AS DONE
The procedure says one thing.
The work says another.
What the gap between work as imagined and work as actually performed can teach us about risk.
02 — LEADERSHIP
Stop asking how many safety conversations your leaders had.
Counting conversations tells you very little about whether those conversations were useful.
03 — RISK
Not every risk deserves the same amount of attention.
Why proportionality matters — and what happens when organisations treat everything as equally important.
THE CIRCUS OF SAFETY
Sometimes health and safety deserves a different conversation.
The Circus of Safety explores the ideas, behaviours and assumptions that shape health and safety at work.
Conversations with people who are prepared to question how things are done, share what they've learned and occasionally poke the bear.
KEEP THINKING
Good questions tend to
lead somewhere.
If something here has made you think differently about what's happening in your organisation, it might be worth a conversation.