Exploring behavioural safety criticisms
January 20, 2025
Can behavioural safety directly reduce accidents at work? Dom Cooper looks at common assumptions and approaches to behaviour-based change. Read More
January 20, 2025
Can behavioural safety directly reduce accidents at work? Dom Cooper looks at common assumptions and approaches to behaviour-based change. Read More
October 30, 2024
Dom Cooper analyses assumptions in common safety management methods. Read More
July 31, 2024
New publication reflecting on fifty years of the legislation applauds its influence but asks questions around wellbeing and technology. Read More
June 19, 2024
Dom Cooper looks at human performance concepts including influencing behaviour and making mistakes - is it really just human error or could it be avoided? And how should leaders respond to this? Read More
May 22, 2024
For this month's blog, Dom Cooper looks at safety management but discusses whether health and safety professionals should pay more focus on 'what went right', as opposed to 'what went wrong' in the workplace. Read More
March 13, 2024
Read Dom Cooper's latest article for SHP as he discusses complexity, and weighs the ideas of predictability and uncertainty for near-miss, accidents and incident investigations. Read More
November 30, 2023
Dom Cooper analyses the definition of human error and whether it can in fact be a root cause instead of a 'symptom of systems'. Read More
October 5, 2023
Dom Cooper looks at serious injuries and fatalities (SIF) in the workplace, analysing whether the current OSH approach is working and what the resolution may be instead. Read More
August 17, 2023
Dom Cooper analyses two types of incident rates: lost-time- and total recordable- and questions their validity. Read More
June 14, 2023
Dom Cooper speaks on trust, mistrust and distrust and what the three terms can tell us about an employee's frame of mind and in turn, an organisation's safety culture... Read More