Comments on: OHS Strategy to nowhere https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/ Award winning news, commentary and opinion on workplace health and safety Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Kevin Jones https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/#comment-247 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:44:56 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=9580#comment-247 In reply to Stephen Sandilands.

The Clemmer article is at http://www.clemmergroup.com/growing-at-the-speed-of-change.php

]]> By: Stephen Sandilands https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/#comment-246 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:41:03 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=9580#comment-246 as Jim Clemmer so succinctly put it in Growing at Theeh Speed of Change, some times we need to slow down to speed up and focus on what our goals and objectives were and whetehr we are still on the same track. Read the 2009 page of the report on Harmonisation and all states agreed to removing refverse onus of proof, but suddenly it popped back in before being put out as a general part of the model act. Goals and political changes do not always mix or keep us on the right track, let alone meet the original objectives!

]]> By: Lessons for Australia from UK assault on OHS red tape « SafetyAtWorkBlog https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/#comment-245 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:01:37 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=9580#comment-245 […] Work Australia may have a ten-year national strategy but that is from within government and is subject to political whim, manipulation and ideological […]

]]> By: Col Finnie https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/#comment-244 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:03:35 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=9580#comment-244 I was at the Bendigo strategy event, and the results there were pretty well exactly what KJ reports for the Melbourne one.

We seem to allow the need for incrementalism to get solid change to then “infect” our ability to be genuinely innovative or to even contemplate big ideas.

OHS-World can’t afford to keep dragging its feet.

Roger, we can’t be experimental cowboys when it comes to day-to-day safety, but we just gotta be able to grab the Big Picture, cut it up, repaste it and slap weird and wonderful colours on it, at least to see if there is a better Big Picture possible for the future.

]]> By: Wayne McCoy https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/#comment-243 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:08:54 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=9580#comment-243 Hi Kevin. As you know from Linkedin, I was fortunate to be part of the Melbourne workshop, which I found valuable and well worth the exercise. There has to be a strategy to know what people are thinking as to how the future might be shaped and which direction needs to be taken to achieve said goals. The people involved came from various industries and all share the same passion and all are intelligent people. I think the same can be said for people at SWA. These workshops are well worth the effort to attend and I believe just because some goals weren’t achieved previously doesn’t equate to repeat failure. Watch this space everyone.

]]> By: Les Henley https://safetyatworkblog.com/2011/11/21/ohs-strategy-to-nowhere/#comment-242 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:25:28 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=9580#comment-242 Maybe we need a period of time to focus on consolidation before further significant development can be considered???

As Kevin indicates, much strategic work has been done in the past but goals were not acheived. More recently we’ve seen the drive to harmonisation, only now to see it begin to flounder.

Are we driving too far too fast (“A bridge too far”) ahead of the resource stretching the fabric of WHS too thin because so many are ‘dragging the chain’ and struggling to keep up or catch up???

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