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The journey to safety excellence: understanding the Safety Culture Maturity Model
Five stages, from meeting the minimum to never taking good performance for granted. Most organisations recognise themselves somewhere on it.
5 min readFifty years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
It began with Aberfan. Half a century on, the framework Robens built still shapes how Britain thinks about risk.
5 min readDesire paths
The worn track across the grass is not laziness. It is feedback on the path you built.
3 min readNothing happened today
Nobody was hurt and nothing broke. That is not an absence of news, it is the result of a hundred small decisions…
2 min readWhat does good safety culture actually look like?
It is not posters on the wall. It is the person who asks the question they are slightly embarrassed to ask.
4 min readManaging near misses: a behavioural opportunity, not a box-ticking exercise
Every near miss is a free lesson. The difficulty is getting people to report them without fear or friction.
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