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Analytics

Drift

How safety fails. A data-led review of accident causation and prevention strategies.

Most serious incidents are preceded by months — sometimes years — of quiet deterioration. Drift examines the patterns in safety data that precede failure, and the analytical methods that can catch them before they become headlines.

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Read the data. See the drift. Act before failure.

Drift brings together causation theory and real-world data analysis — drawing on national statistics from GLOSS and operational event patterns from the field. Analytical commentary written for professionals who want to understand what is driving the numbers.

› Why fatality rates alone undercount occupational harm — and what else to measure
› The precursor data pattern: what near-miss trends predict about future incidents
› Agriculture vs construction: similar risk profiles, different effective interventions
› How to set ISO 45001 targets that reflect real sector performance, not aspirational numbers
› Leading vs lagging indicators — building the measurement system that tells you in time

01

Normalisation of deviance

How small deviations from safe procedure accumulate unnoticed until a major failure makes them visible.

02

Latent conditions

The organisational preconditions — resource pressure, time compression, ambiguous standards — that set the stage for incidents.

03

High-frequency low-severity data

Why first aid counts and near misses are the most predictive data an organisation holds — and how to read them.

04

Causation models

Swiss cheese, bow-tie, and STAMP/STPA — the frameworks that explain how causes interact, not just what they are.

05

Sector pattern analysis

Using GLOSS data to understand how incident profiles differ across construction, manufacturing, logistics, and services.

06

Prevention strategies

What the data says about what actually works — beyond PPE campaigns and toolbox talks.

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Standards

Mission 45001

Breaking down every ISO 45001:2018 clause for the field, the strategists, and the verifiers.

Culture

PAPA Said

How culture works. A comprehensive examination of safety culture as a subset of organisational culture.

Norms

RE|Safety

Rethinking safety norms. An operations-informed critique of prevailing safety norms.

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The SCAN Series

See the patterns in your own data.

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