HSE guides
Plain-language guides to the frameworks that run hard industries — and how to make them live in the flow of work instead of a folder no one opens. Written by people who ran the HSE function, not marketers.
- FrameworksFeatured
The IOGP Life-Saving Rules: a practical guide
What the nine IOGP Life-Saving Rules are, why they replaced the old 18, and how to operationalise them across observations, permits and investigations.
- FrameworksFeatured
IOGP 577: fabrication site construction safety, explained
What IOGP 577 covers, the hazardous-activity areas it standardises for fabrication sites, and how to run activity-based hazard control in the flow of work.
- InvestigationsFeatured
ICAM investigations: a step-by-step method
How the Incident Cause Analysis Method works — its four factor levels, the investigation steps, and how to turn findings into controls that hold.
- Risk
Bowtie analysis and Critical Control Management
How to read a bowtie diagram, what makes a control "critical", and how Critical Control Management keeps the barriers that stop a fatality actually working.
- Performance
Leading vs lagging indicators in HSE
The difference between leading and lagging safety indicators, why lagging metrics like TRIFR mislead, and how to build leading indicators from real work.
- Risk
The hierarchy of controls, applied on site
The levels of the hierarchy of controls, the extra "isolation" level in the Australian WHS model, and how to choose controls that hold instead of relying on PPE and procedures.
- Assurance
Corrective actions that actually close
Why corrective actions leak, what a good action register looks like, and how verification and one shared register turn findings into closed-out risk.