Compliance - is it a barrier for health & safety performance?
This article explores why sensible risk management, rather than compliance, is needed to manage health & safety risks.
Embedding Safety into Business Practice
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Heinrich Havemann
- Jul 10
Five Risk Management lessons we can learn from elephants - Lesson 5
Eating the Elephant Desmond Tutu once wisely said that "there is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time." What he meant by...
Heinrich Havemann
- Jun 5
Five Risk Management lessons we can learn from elephants - Lesson 4
Courageous Leader, The Elephant in the room On January 28, 1986, The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded on take-off claiming the lives of...
Heinrich Havemann
- May 8
Five Risk Management lessons we can learn from elephants - Lesson 3
Likelihood x Frequency of Risk Occurring. When both are present, you will eventually hit the Elephant. It's not if but when! One winter...
Heinrich Havemann
- Mar 19
Five Risk Management lessons we can learn from elephants - Lesson 2
Risk Perception Is it a trunk or a tail or a rope? In ancient India, the story goes that seven blind men, who had never before touched or...
Heinrich Havemann
- Feb 7
Five Risk Management lessons we can learn from elephants - Lesson 1
In this first edition of a series of Five Risk Management Lessons, we can learn from Elephants; I am exploring risk Identification.
Heinrich Havemann
- Aug 28, 2020
Why people take risks - Are they Risk Takers, Bold, Reckless or Pressured?
I remember when my son took his first step. With much encouragement from his older sister, he took that leap. First, he hesitated and...
Heinrich Havemann
- Jun 28, 2020
The search for certainty - risk-taking is a choice rather than a fate.
In this article, Robert Lubbe joins me in exploring risk and the methodologies to determine the likelihood of a risk occurring needed to...
Heinrich Havemann
- May 7, 2020
Enabling safe work in a COVID-19 World
Hazards are a part of life and life goes on. What happens when hazards cannot be eliminated but life goes on and so does the need to run a b
Heinrich Havemann
- Apr 30, 2020
Embedding Safety into Business Practice
What organisations can learn about performance and health and safety from the Paratroopers Helmet, reserve, chest strap, leg straps ......
Heinrich Havemann
- Apr 4, 2020
Lockdown - Ring around the Rosie
What we can learn from decisive leadership. In this edition of the Safety Improvement Group blog, I am exploring the similarities...
Heinrich Havemann
- Mar 1, 2020
Compliance - is it a barrier for health & safety performance?
This article explores why sensible risk management, rather than compliance, is needed to manage health & safety risks.
Heinrich Havemann
- Feb 1, 2020
What good health and safety looks like
Have you ever wondered what exactly is meant when safety practitioners ask the question: "What does good safety look like?"
Heinrich Havemann
- Jan 1, 2020
The New Age of the Trusted Health & Safety Professional
Do you have the skills needed to build a reputation needed to effectively influence long-lasting change?