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Barry Spud Heads to Egypt: The Plant Upgrade Begins with His Departure
By Barry Spud, Visiting Professor of Ancient Compliance Management has offered me a few weeks’ holiday during our major plant ...
Sadie Tater’s Bali Wellbeing Programme: I Relax, You React
By Sadie Tater, Head of Offshore Psychosocial Improvement Greetings from Bali, where I am working tirelessly on your wellbeing. This ...
Barry’s on Holiday. His Slogans Aren’t.
By Barry Spud, Director of Remote Compliance Before leaving for Egypt, I have covered the factory walls with motivational safety ...
Want to Meet Barry Spud? You Already Have.
By Barry Spud, Global Safety Presence, FLI — Fellow of LinkedIn Indignation Several readers have expressed a desire to meet ...
Barry Spud Discovers Ethics: Unfortunately, It Applies to Him
By Barry Spud, Chief Ethics Officer (Self-Appointed) Until recently, I thought ethics were people from other countries. “We already welcome ...
Kevin Returns from SPoR: Emergency Reinduction Required
By Barry Spud, Director of Approved Learning I authorised Kevin to attend some Social Psychology of Risk workshops because I ...
Safety Santa Is Coming to Audit
By Barry Spud, Head of Festive Compliance, HoHoH&S Preparations are underway for our annual family Christmas party at the factory, ...
A Semiotic Audit of Safety Symbols – Episode 10
As we near the end of this semiotic audit of safety semiotics we begin to take a stock of the ...
Barry Spud Discovers the Value of Safety
By Barry Spud, Chief Core Values Officer, PhD (Posters Have Depth) I was delighted by all the discussion on LinkedIn ...
Instructional Semiotics – Safety Semiotic 8
In this episode we look at useful safety semiotics such as this: Whilst it does provide solid information on the ...
Six Decades of Risk Research
Every so often something comes along that really ‘hits the spot’ when it comes to research in risk. This book, ...
How Symbols and Slogans Hide Methodology – Safety Semiotics Episode 9 – HOP Symbols
All methods emerge from a methodology. A methodology is a philosophy of method. A methodology is NOT a method. (https://www.uwa.edu.au/students/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/students/docs/studysmarter/hm4-methods-and-methdology.pdf) ...