The Safety of Work
Do you know the science behind what works and doesn’t work when it comes to keeping people safe in your organisation?
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Ep. 138: How can we improve the conversations we have around injury reporting? (opens the original)
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Injury rates tell an incomplete story. David Provan and Drew Rae explore how adding an injury severity metric transforms safety performance conversations. They examine the 2026 Journal of Safety Research paper "Injury Rates Tell an Incomplete Story, but a More Complete Measurement Narrative May Be Possible" by Kevin Geddert, Sidney Dekker, and Drew Rae. Across three large organizational case studies, the researchers presented senior executives with their own injury data calculated three ways: to
Ep. 137: Are we lying about our safety performance? (opens the original)
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Returning after a summer break, David Provan and Drew Rae ask an uncomfortable question: are we lying about our safety performance? They examine Jan Hayes, Sarah Maslen, and Paul Schulman's 2024 Safety Science paper, "A Case of Collective Lying: How Deceit Becomes Entrenched in Organisational Safety Behaviour," a case study of Pacific Gas and Electric's decade-long falsification of pipeline locate-and-mark records — a scandal that produced $110 million in fines after a 2009 whistleblower complai
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