Essentials of Safety

Maintaining the Balance

This book explores the few things in safety that sit beneath all of the complexity and complicatedness of the workplace and that we simply must get right.

Simplicity in Safety Investigations

This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents. As a basis, it uses the ideas of some of the great safety science thinkers of our time.

Investigations

In addition to helping leaders be the best they can be at running both simple and complex incident investigations, Raeda Consulting can help by directly facilitating significant workplace investigations in many areas.

Workshops & training

Covering both investigations and coaching, Raeda Consulting offers various workshops and training to help leaders undertake investigations and coach their people to have better conversations in the workplace.

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The science and theories that lie behind safety, great leadership and extraordinary performance are moving at a great pace. In fact, the world in practice is lagging considerably behind the science. It is often hard to keep up with the latest thinking and what it might mean to us.

Raeda Consulting provides the link between the latest science and some simple, practical and easy to use methods and conversations that will drive greatness in safety investigations, conversations, leadership and extraordinary business performance generally. Our simple and very practical approach and methods enable businesses, managers and leaders at all levels to see beyond the predictable and engage with their people through new eyes to achieve extraordinary performance and make a real difference.

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Essentials of Safety

Essentials of Safety Blog 1/14 – Exploring what the underlying ‘essentials’ of safety that tie together the ‘Individual’, ‘Leaders and leadership’, the ‘Systems’ that we are a part of, and the ‘Cultures’ of the workplace.

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Understands their ‘Why’

Essentials of Safety Blog 2/14 – Knowing your ‘Why’ changes what you do and how you do it. When you truly know why you do what you do and it aligns with your values and your authentic you, you become unstoppable in your drive, destination, and delivery.

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Chooses and displays their attitude

Essentials of Safety Blog 3/14 – You don’t always get to choose what you do at work. But you always get to choose how you react and what attitude you take to the work you do.

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Will We Ever Learn

A snippet – Will We Ever Learn As some of you already know, I am working on a new idea. Will it be a book?

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About Ian Long

Ian Long has a degree in Science and postgrad studies in Occupational Hygiene. After some 18 years working in various industries and roles, he has worked predominantly in the minerals extraction and processing industry. During the past 25 years, he has worked in oil and gas, chemical industries, and semi- government industries. He has held roles ranging from Safety Advisor to Vice President of Health, Safety and Environment within BHP. He now runs his own company, Raeda Consulting, providing mentoring, coaching, and training in leadership and in incident investigations around the world.

He has also facilitated many serious workplace incident investigations. His purpose in life, his ‘Why’, is to share ideas, concepts, and practicalities in safety and leadership with as many people as will listen, so that people start to think differently and positively about the why, what, and how of the things they do in both leadership and safety. He has two books published by CRC Press / Routledge. They are Simplicity in Safety Investigations (2018) and Essentials of Safety (2021).

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