In September 1998, the Esso Longford gas plant explosion in Victoria, Australia, marked a pivotal moment in industrial safety history....

The BP Texas Refinery Explosion, also known as the Texas City Refinery explosion, was a tragic event on March 23, 2005, at the BP Texas...

Creating a comprehensive guide for mastering workplace incident investigations requires a more detailed exploration of each step.  This...

Today, I want to take a moment to reflect on one of history's most tragic industrial events—the Bhopal disaster. This catastrophic...

Introduction This article explores the customisation of a standard process by an organisation and the impact it has on the fundamental...

I first wrote this article on the FirefighterNation website way back in 2009, before I was involved in Safety Wise and knee-deep in...

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...

So, there you are - you have raked through all the evidence at the incident scene, conducted multiple interviews, gone through your...

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 Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM) is a popular and widely applied workplace incident investigation method. It has come a long way...

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...

Investigating safety incidents is rarely easy and doing so remotely can be even harder. But in the new normal of today where people and...

On October 6th, the world lost the legendary guitar hero, Eddie Van Halen, following a long battle with cancer. On social media and...

This week, I've been talking about quality reviews of investigation reports and related activities. Despite our vast experience as...

This week I've been talking about the adequacy of risk controls, or more to the point, failures in implementing them properly or...

This week I've been talking about language in our communication around workplace safety. It was triggered by a recent post which quoted a...

I'm gonna make this one short, sharp and sweet. Paperwork. An absolute necessity in most industries and workplaces, not only due to the...

The problem with pandemics is that for many people, we're experiencing something never experienced before. We're seeing our day-to-day...

Over the last few weeks we've seen a flurry of information, and misinformation, spreading like an out of control pandemic around the...

This week I've been discussing the Four Horsemen of Investigations and the role they play in undermining our investigation efforts. A...