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Tag: Soft Controls

  • The Fallacy of Soft Controls: Lessons from a 100-Ton Dozer Crushing

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    Drew McGiffert
    722 words
    3–5 minutes

    The primary failure of many industrial safety management systems is an over-reliance on administrative and behavioral rules. It is incredibly easy to write a policy, mandate a high-visibility uniform, or tell a worker to stay alert. However, a critical safety directive issued by the NSW Mine Safety regulator serves as a brutal case study on…