Articles 2021/22
Formula 1 - another simple but this time positive case study
From Safety and Health Practitioner May 2022
Downfall - the case against Boing
From Safety and Health Practitioner April 2022
Creating wellbeing
From Safety and Health Practitioner December 2021
Why a good 'walk and talk' is so effective
From Safety and Health Practitioner December 2021
Build it with flowers
From Safety and Health Practitioner October 2021
Mental health: Proactive and practical measures
By Dr. Tim Marsh
September 2021
‘How much film you got in that bloody camera?’
From Safety and Health Practitioner July 2021
Trust and toxicity
From Safety and Health Practitioner June 2021
Safety IS a laughing matter
From Safety and Health Practitioner May 2021
Cynefin – the power of thoughtful analysis
From Safety and Health Practitioner May 2021
Crazy, stupid… accidents
From Safety and Health Practitioner April 2021
Sex and the safety message
From Safety and Health Practitioner March 2021
"How Spies Think"
From Safety and Health Practitioner February 2021
Articles 2020
Zoom conferences and COVID-19s
From Safety and Health Practitioner December 2020
Safety culture Q&A
From Safety and Health Practitioner December 2020
'Return to work’ best practice and safety excellenceon
From Safety and Health Practitioner October 2020
Behavioural safety and risk management
From Safety and Health Practitioner August 2020
Behavioural safety: Trip hazards
From Safety and Health Practitioner March 2020
Articles 2019
Jason Anker: Motivational safety speaker
From Safety and Health Practitioner March 2019
Why James Reason was looking in the wrong direction
From Safety and Health Practitioner March 2019
Einstein’s safety culture quotes
From Safety and Health Practitioner Feb 2019
Articles prior to 2019
12 Rules for Life: 'Risk taking is essential'
Safety and Health Practitioner October 2018
Ahead of his time - the superhero of safety
Safety and Health Practitioner 19th December 2016
A flawed hero: from Aberfan to HSWA
From Safety and Health Practitioner October 2016
Footprints and handprints
From Safety and Health Practitioner June 2014
Mysterious ways
From Safety and Health Practitioner August 2013
Lone workers and behaviour
From Health and Safety Matters April 2013
The nerve of it
From Safety and Health Practitioner Oct 2012
Behavioural safety: a risky business?
From The Ergonomist Sept 2012
Go forth and multiply
From Safety and Health Practitioner Aug 2012
Cast no shadow
From Safety and Health Practitioner Jan 2012
Driving the point home
From Safety and Health Practitioner Oct 2011
Words to the wise
From Safety and Health Practitioner Feb 2011
It's a kind of magic
From Safety and Health Practitioner Sept 2010
Why culture change programmes work - or don't work!
From Health and Safety at Work April, 2010
Debunking the Myths around Stress
We’ve all had to return to work after a holiday, how does it feel? How engaged and focused do you feel? And that’s after just two weeks, how about a month or even seven weeks?
The Risk Assessment Trap
Working with SHE professionals, almost daily I meet people who are frustrated with other people’s behaviour, especially when it comes to safety.
Are you expecting a serious spike in incidents?
We’ve all had to return to work after a holiday, how does it feel? How engaged and focused do you feel? And that’s after just two weeks, how about a month or even seven weeks?
Gaslighting, Shining a Light on a Psychological Term
Gaslighting is a term that is being used more and more frequently, but what is it, why is it so important and why is it suddenly so prevalent?
The Paperwork Trap & How to Avoid It
There is a very common trap that many fall into, one in which people feel that they are drowning in paperwork
The Importance of Language - Returning People to Work from Furlough
Many people are now returning to work following a long period of non-working. Whilst this is certainly good news for most employees, we look at the impersonal approach that some organisations are taking.
Stretch to the limit
From Safety and Health Practitioner Feb 2010
How to win friends
Health & Safety at Work
Feb 2009
What's involved in a Full Behavioural Intervention?
Taken from Training Solutions for Health and Safety
How to ensure your Behavioural Safety Process is effective
Taken from Training Solutions for Health and Safety
How a Behavioural approach helps to get to the root of the problem
Taken from Training Solutions for Health and Safety
Practicalities of a Behavioural Approach (What can go wrong)
Taken from Training Solutions for Health and Safety
Investigating Behaviour Modification Programmes in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Independent HSE funded research published December 1999
Health and Safety - Making it Happen
Prepared by the Cormorant Alpha workforce for the Offshore Safety Conference 2000
The art of communicating
From Safety and Health Practitioner September 2014
The Role of Management Commitment in Determining the Success of a Behavioural Safety Intervention
From Journal of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (Dec 1998)
Behavioural Safety - The Current Position
From Training Solutions
Issue 9 – late Summer ’99
Behavioural Safety. An Overview of Key Theory, Recent Controversies
From Safety and Health Practitioner January 2003
Behavioural Safety - a Short Overview
This one page introduction was first published in Storage, Handling and Distribution in 1997
Behavioural Safety - an Overview
This overview was commissioned for the Health and Safety Manager’s Yearbook 1997
An overview of the UMIST research into the use of behavioural safety on construction sites
From Safety & Health Practitioner
1995
Where does health and safety fit with a happy life?
From Safety Management
January 2015
Blogs
Pies, prejudice and Swiss cheese
From Sentinel Knowledge
March/April 2020
Alertness at Work
From Safety and Health Practitioner
10th June 2018
A simple strategy for mental health
From Safety and Health Practitioner
23rd May 2018
Redefining behavioural safety
From Safety and Health Practitioner
23rd May 2016
An accident waiting to happen
From Safety and Health Practitioner
22nd September 2009
NEW | The Millennials, social media and soft skills
From Health and Safety at Work 27th June 2016
Sex, drugs, rock and roll - and a relish for risk
From Health and Safety at Work 11th May 2016
Life with the lions
From Health and Safety at Work 31st March 2016
Dieselgate, data and corporate culture
From Health and Safety at Work 8th March 2016
Gravity, blame and inappropriate responses
From Health and Safety at Work 8th March 2016
Presidential elections and critical incidents
From Health and Safety at Work 25th February 2016
Charles Kennedy and why commitment is vital
From Health and Safety at Work 22nd June 2015
It's not me but it's not you either
From Health and Safety at Work 2nd April 2015
Jeremy Corbyn, occupational health and the Overton Window
From Health and Safety at Work 23rd September 2015
Latino workers in the US - or 'Chico and the Man'
From Health and Safety at Work 26th October 2015
Doctor's Dilemma
From Health and Safety at Work 22nd April 2015
Fatigue, Buncefield and the World's best rugby team
From Health and Safety at Work 2nd April 2015
Five Xmas presents to give to yourself
From Health and Safety at Work 22nd June 2015
Sex and the safety message
From Health and Safety at Work 11th November 2015
Heinrich, Beckham, Player and Mozart
From Health and Safety at Work 22nd April 2015
The guru, the magician and the ping pong player
From Health and Safety at Work 27th November 2015
The long view
From Health and Safety at Work 30th July 2015
The silent massacre
From Health and Safety at Work 14th May 2015
Your ever helpful brain
From Health and Safety at Work 22nd March 2015
