Ep204: 99% = 0%, with Andrew Barrett

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Sometimes, 99% is as good as 0%.  And it's really quite useful to know when that's the case. </p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Hey, it’s Andrew, and this is Safety on Tap. </p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome back to all of you wonderful regular listeners.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This episode is brought to you by real people, doing real high risk work.  But even more than that, this episode is brought to you because well timed, well structured curious questions asked of the people who do that work, reveal insights that we can all learn a whole lot from. </p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>"210 to 318, am I okay to come past on your left side?"</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>What you just heard is often called poscomms. </p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Poscomms is short for Positive Communication.  Poscomms serves as an important control measure to prevent the unwanted or uncontrolled interaction of people and plant, usually large plant or machinery in mining and civil construction works.  Picture large dump trucks or truck and trailer, bulldozers and excavators. </p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>So what's the actual control, the things which is effective for minimising the risk of people and plant interaction? It turns out, it’s quite a number of things.  The basic ingredients are:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"type":"1"} --></p> <ol type="1"> <li>People with radios</li> <li>The initial message</li> <li>The response</li> </ol> <p><!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp