Benefits of Vertical Safety

Applications of the Vertical Safety Technique in South Africa

What are the benefits to being safe? Let Vertical Safety solve the safety issue: once and for all.

The real issue of safety is the one where your H&S Mine Manager steps into your office with a stern expression and you get that sinking feeling he is about to announce a fatality, or ask for a bigger budget – again.

Clearly the man does not understand the implications of the world wide safety plateau, now already recognized for more than 10 years by the likes of Prof Reason of Australia, the HSE in Britain and the US Transportation Department.

Practically, the H&S Manager cannot ask for a bigger budget because you know he cannot promise better results. So what do you do, continue with illegal/unethical and fruitless H&S expenditures AND defend fatalities again? Because after all, it is the CEO who is hammered by Inspectors and Union representatives, isn’t it?

Then you take a second look and find that safety costs per employee has increased substantially, safety procedures have reduced the average effective man-day from 6 hours to 4.5 hours, employee insurance increases at more than inflation rates and average job attendance has dropped remarkably.

Then you take a third look and see that South Africa has now reached the level of mining “miscreants” in the world according to the Fraser Institute, resulting in foreign direct investments being diverted to the likes of Paraguay and Chile.

Clearly your foreign shareholders are not happy with you because the linear productivity trend indicates that your mine will reach zero productivity in 4 years. That is when you decide to reduce H&S expenditure and to establish a new strategy for dealing with Safety once and for all.

The reason for the safety plateau is after all that’s said and done, not caused by human behavior, but according to Multiply Safety Project Director: Johann Theron, as supported by the literary philosophies of Jacques Derrida, primarily caused by human language – or – hermeneutics.

To reduce and perhaps bring to a halt the continuing growth in the deconstruction of safety due to materialization of Derrida in the physical world, a similar growing counter-force is required, particularly in the form of a predictive system structure such as the trade marked vertical safety technique.

On the one hand the problem of safety deconstruction can be described in detail by a literary Professor and student of Jacques Derrida, while on the other hand the counter-balanced solution is described under the authority of an internationally recognized system safety professional organization.

It is therefore clear that safety (language) deconstruction will not stop, but that it can be slowed down and balanced using a system language filter which will reduce the physical materialization of injuries.

This will allow a vertical predictive approach to manage safely, not just safety – once and for all.

Applications of the Vertical Safety Technique in South Africa

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