Monthly Archive: July 2012

Jul
30

Heinrich’s Common Cause Hypothesis: A tool for creating safety

Cary Iceberg derailment

This is a guest blog post by Carsten Busch. Carsten works as Section Head Safety and Quality for the infrastructure division of the Norwegian Rail Administration. He has almost 20 years of HSEQ experience from various railway and oil & gas related companies in the Netherlands and Norway. For more on Carsten, please visit his …

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Jul
13

The Value of Safety Observations, Especially Safe Observations

The safety profession has an unhealthy fixation on measuring purely using negative values. OSHA recordable and lost time injuries first spring to mind – both lagging, and I would suggest negative, indicators. Once they occur, there is nothing that can be done but to investigate and hopefully learn enough to avoid similar incidents in the …

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