Rethinking Safety ⚠️

How the Queensland mining and quarrying industries can chart out a journey to a safer future.

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Why DON'T bad things happen in other complex and hazardous industries, like hospitals and aircraft carriers?

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Why more reports of things going wrong can actually be a good thing. And why organisations drift into failure.

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The problems with paperwork, procedures and administrative controls in preventing serious accidents.

Resources and links:
Hierarchy of Controls, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Hierarchies of Control, on page 6 of Prevention and Intervention, by the Australian Institute of Health and Safety.
Hierarchy of Controls, on page 37 of the Brady Review, by Dr Sean Brady.

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What is causing fatalities in the mining industry? And what is the role of human error?

Resources and links:
The causal diagram we discuss in this episode

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