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Sadie Discovers the Glossary Is SIF-less
By Barry Spud, Specialist in Acronym-Transmitted Confusion Sadie arrived in my office looking distressed. “Barry, I’ve been looking at the ...
The Guide-Model-Framework to 70 Year-Old Safety with a New SIF Brand
As I looked though the National Safety Council Guidebook to SIF I wondered what was different. Here I was thinking ...
Operation Absolute Zero: Barry Spud Declares War on Safety
By Field Marshal Barry Spud, Safety Crusader After twenty years of safety campaigns, I have decided the problem is insufficient ...
The Propaganda of SIF
There’s hardly a day goes by in safety where a new slogan, brand and spin has to be developed because ...
Predictive Safety: Tomorrow’s Accident, Today’s Invoice
By Barry Spud, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Naturally After twenty years of failing to predict accidents, I have purchased software ...
From Zero Harm to Some Harm: Barry Spud Discovers SIF
By Barry Spud, Chief SIF Strategist, Former Zero Harm Visionary, Acronym Pending After more than twenty years of failing to ...
A Sign of My Genius: Barry Spud Discovers Semiotics
By Barry Spud, Chief Symbolic Officer, DipSign, CertArrow, Fellow of the Laminated Triangle Until recently, I thought semiotics meant being ...
What Do Your Safety Symbols Say? – Episode Three Podcast Series – Safety Semiotics
When considering sign-symbol systems, does Safety think about trade-offs and by-products made symbolically? When trying to present a message symbolically, ...
Safety Semiotics Podcast Series
As a follow up to our free book SPoR and Semiotics, Methods to Tackle Risk Matt Thorne and Rob Long ...
Where is the Human in Safety?
It is so odd that Safety talks about: ‘human error’, ‘human and organisational performance’, ‘human factors’ and yet none of ...
Safety – From Objects to Subjects (From Error to Persons)
The foundation of an ethic in risk must begin by an understanding of persons. I saw a curriculum outline recently ...
Trick or Audit? Barry and Sadie Become Halloween Costumes
By Barry Spud, Certified Fright Leader and Seasonal Compliance Specialist I have spent years building a professional reputation based on ...