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State and business PPPs are ‘outsourcing’ governance and sheq culture
Growing public private partnership (PPP) business in Africa is ‘outsourcing’ occupational safety, health, environment and quality (sheq) culture, corporate governance, and sustainability. Roles of sheq accountability are becoming blurred as even mining and labour inspectors’ training is being privatised. Some PPPS are essential in Africa, but some business roles in state Continue Reading...Risk tolerance dictated by human Hierachy of Needs
We make large investments in health and safety systems, but we should recognise fundamental human behaviour factors that make our systems work or fail. Personal transport is one of these crucial influences. Transport is amont the obvious artefacts of challenges, particularly in Africa and Asia. In Africa, the number of fatalities is horrific on the roads. Continue Reading...
Transport culture lessons from flawed Titanic investigations
Watching the movie Titanic, in younger years, I was caught up in the love and class triangle. Little did I know that my focus would change to the transport, safety and culture triangle. The Titanic disaster is recognised as one of the iconic human failures in transport technology and culture, and Continue Reading...
ISO19011: 2012 - The New Auditing Standard
ISO19011 the 2003 version has been replaced by the 2012 version. This is the new standard known as the “Guidelines for Auditing Management Systems” document and is applicable to auditing amongst others the ISO9001, ISO14001 & OHSAS18001 management systems. For the past 10 years auditors and lead auditors in the world have Continue Reading...
Defence and mining sustain dual cultures: one for annual reports, health and safety toolbox talks and ‘zero harm’ signage, another for underground work, night shift, and production bonuses. Culture defends and protects its members, but culture could sacrifice and abuse victims of its own failures. When a nation state or an industry places Continue Reading...- Does rail transport kill more people than mining?
SA railway fatalities numbers found in Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) research to be ‘higher than mining’, are disputed by Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa). The problem lies deeper than metrics. This crisis of metrics, or war or words and numbers in 2012, is an opportunity to address some ethical dilemmas in safety Continue Reading... - Sheq requires application of intelligence, emotion and spirit
This century poses drastic changes in human safety, health, environment, quality (sheq), politics and economics. We could no longer act on human intelligence, emotion and spirituality in isolation. Unemployment and unrest are now twin global problems, threatening the once vaunted intentions of sustainable development. We are in the cusp of a Continue Reading...
Of the 29 USA Massey Energy Montcoal Upper Big Branch coal miners who died in the gas explosion disaster in West Virginia, 17 had pneumoconiosis, and the mine was known to break ventilation laws. Pneumoconiosis is an advanced stage of anthracosis, or black lung disease, from long term or high level Continue Reading...
