Customise the Process or Not?
Introduction This article explores the customisation of a standard process by an organisation and the impact it has on the fundamental...
Avoiding The Dirty Dozen
I first wrote this article on the FirefighterNation website way back in 2009, before I was involved in Safety Wise and knee-deep in...
Normalising Versus Fixing & Preventing
This is a fascinating video (and hard to watch for the car enthusiast!). The long and short of it is the car had been rebuilt and heavily...
ICAM Investigations - What happens when you can’t find anything amiss?
So, there you are - you have raked through all the evidence at the incident scene, conducted multiple interviews, gone through your...
Garbage Investigations
As you’d expect in my role, I spend a lot of time talking with clients and would-be clients about ICAM and investigations. My aim in...
The relationship between ICAM and 5 Whys
The Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM) is a popular and widely applied workplace incident investigation method. It has come a long way...
Keeping Your New Employees Safe
Now that we seem to be getting on top of Covid 19, or learning how to live with it, industries are starting to open up again to satisfy...
ICAM Investigation In Times Of A Pandemic
Investigating safety incidents is rarely easy and doing so remotely can be even harder. But in the new normal of today where people and...
Challenge Your Thinking
This week, I've been talking about quality reviews of investigation reports and related activities. Despite our vast experience as...
Reviewing Your Risk Controls
This week I've been talking about the adequacy of risk controls, or more to the point, failures in implementing them properly or...
