How the Queensland mining and quarrying industries can chart out a journey to a safer future.

How the Queensland mining and quarrying industries can chart out a journey to a safer future.

6. High Reliability Organisations

Why DON'T bad things happen in other complex and hazardous industries, like hospitals and aircraft carriers?

Why DON'T bad things happen in other complex and hazardous industries, like hospitals and aircraft carriers?

5. Why bad things DON'T happen

Why more reports of things going wrong can actually be a good thing. And why organisations drift into failure.

Why more reports of things going wrong can actually be a good thing. And why organisations drift into failure.

4. Why everything you know about reporting is wrong

The problems with paperwork, procedures and administrative controls in preventing serious accidents.

 

Resources and links:
Hierarchy of Controls, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Hierarchies of Control, on page 6 of Prevention and Intervention, by the Australian Institute of Health and Safety.
Hierarchy of Controls, on page 37 of the Brady Review, by Dr Sean Brady.

The problems with paperwork, procedures and administrative controls in preventing serious accidents.
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Resources and links:
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<li><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hierarchy/">Hierarchy of Controls</a>, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ohsbok.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/34.1-Prevention-and-Intervention.pdf">Hierarchies of Control, on page 6 of Prevention and Intervention</a>, by the Australian Institute of Health and Safety.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/tableOffice/TabledPapers/2020/5620T197.pdf">Hierarchy of Controls, on page 37 of the Brady Review</a>, by Dr Sean Brady.</li>
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3. The paperwork problem

What is causing fatalities in the mining industry? And what is the role of human error?

 

Resources and links:
The causal diagram we discuss in this episode

What is causing fatalities in the mining industry? And what is the role of human error?
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Resources and links:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bradyheywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Review-of-all-fatal-accidents-in-Queensland-mines-and-quariies-from-2000-to-2019-P95-1.pdf">The causal diagram we discuss in this episode</a></li>
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2. The role of human error in fatalities

A whirlwind tour of what we'll cover in this podcast series. And why now is the time for change.

A whirlwind tour of what we'll&nbsp;cover in this podcast series. And why now is the time for change.

1. Why now is the time for change

A show where the Queensland mining industry charts out the journey to a safer future.

A show where the Queensland mining industry charts out the journey to a safer future.

Rethinking Safety launching on 26th Aug 2020

A show where the Queensland mining industry charts out the journey to a safer future. Hosted by forensic engineer Sean Brady, author of the Brady Review into fatal accidents in the Queensland mining industry.

A show where the Queensland mining industry charts out the journey to a safer future. Hosted by forensic engineer Sean Brady, author of the Brady Review into fatal accidents in the Queensland mining industry.

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