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Thank you for the opportunity to review this book.
Lynn Hart <lynnhart@idl.net.au>
Newcastle, NSW Australia - Wednesday, June 02, 1999 at 10:55:52 (EDT)
Interested in the approach to engineers and Industrial Hygienists as to how they deal with the issue. More comments after I have had time to read the book!
Robert W. Wheeler <iehc@aol.com>
PO Box 4426 ,Morgantown, WV 26504-4426 USA - Monday, May 31, 1999 at 20:18:55 (EDT)
Dr. Wilde,
I have found your book most interesting and timely. I am a health and safety professional-in my over 20 years of experience in health and safety and risk management in the pulp and paper industry, I had come to the conclusion and realization that emphasis on human error, technical fixes or atempts to change human behaviour by applying positive reinforcement or punishment will not create safety excellence. Instead as individual safety behaviour is the product of many influences, improving safety performance requires that we work comprehensively on the many organizational and cultural factors that influence the individual.
Agneta Holländer <ahollan@netcom.ca>
- Monday, May 31, 1999 at 15:05:24 (EDT)
I am a regulator of minesite occupational health and safety and find this work very relevant to changes in our organisations current operational strategies for risk management and communication
Stephen Kamarudin <s.kamarudin@dme.wa.gov.au>
Perth, Western Australia Australia - Wednesday, May 19, 1999 at 21:58:05 (EDT)
Do these theories also apply to business risk takers?? Fewer and fewer companies are prepared to take risks in their business activities
Yet to be innovative, even with the most detailed analytical techniques, risk must be taken.
Dr Brian Kirk <Bkirk@mmm.com>
Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom - Monday, April 19, 1999 at 07:07:41 (EDT)
Excellent work, highly reccommend it
Dennis Brooks <endrisk@endrisk.com>
Long Beach, CA USA - Monday, April 05, 1999 at 05:22:23 (EDT)
Dr. Wilde:
I found your work very interesting. I was interested in your work as I work for the Department of National Defence and involved in designing a fraud prevention and awareness program for DND. I am also preparing to write a thesis on this or a related area/topic as part of the MDMP program at RMC.
I found the portion on education very interesting. I am also searching for more material on creating awareness and preventing fraud in this department. I was made aware of your work by Scott Russell at SAR as he spoke highly of you. Thank you, Al Doucet.
Al Doucet <aa139@issc.debbs.dnd.ndhq.ca>
Ottawa, Ont Canada - Monday, March 08, 1999 at 11:40:28 (EST)
Your photo looks like Richard Dryfus.
R. D. "Donny" Dicharry <rddicharry@prodigy.net>
St. Rose, Louisiana USA - Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 19:18:44 (EST)
RHT represents the best reason why government safety regulations should not unwittingly seek engineering solutions to human performance problems. The industrial radiography industry is a classic example. Hopefully, the regulated community will soon use your excellent work to influence regulatory to greatly improve safety regulation to embrace RHT. Please kkep up the good work.
R. D. "Donny" Dicharry
- Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 19:17:18 (EST)
I am working on a research paper in stress and drivers' performance in respect of traffic safety in Hong Kong. Before reading your book, I have already little concpet on risk and risk management but not on human perception of risk and their adjustment of behaviour towards different conditions. Of course, enforcement by legislation is still one of the most important aspects to control human behaviour in countries where the general education level of the public is still not high when compared with other developed countries. Besides, there are also insufficient research on the behavioural aspects of drivers by local researcher. I hope, with more research on the concept of target risk, the general safety and health at work can be improved. I have just finished the first reading and I hope that there will be more aspirations after I have sufficient digestion on your concept conveyed in the book.
chow kwok fai Calvin <calvinchowkf@ctimail.com>
- Friday, January 29, 1999 at 04:01:43 (EST)
Checking this out Dr. Wilde. I like the Spanish version. Looks good.
Marg Lawson <margl@psyc.queensu.ca>
Kingston, ON Canada - Wednesday, January 13, 1999 at 11:04:56 (EST)
Hi, Gerry. I haven't read the book yet, but I will.
Andy Turnbull <andyt@idirect.com>
toronto, - Friday, January 08, 1999 at 00:16:49 (EST)
Great book. Here is what I had to say about RHT's application to the military.
Luckily here we can enforce people to act more responsibly. But in my opinion, as budgets shrink, and we move away from traditional Safety, we must accept our natural propensity to accept risk, and shift towards raising rewards as much as lowering risk. Let's face it, the opportunity to be steely eyed masters of danger is part of why we sought out this life. Mishaps due to accepted high risk missions are still terrible, but our long standing trend of aggressive flying mishaps on low risk missions (particularly in the helicopter world) is tragic and inexcusable. Ultimately, this course more fitting with our nature better prepares us for the hyper risk/reward world of combat; making us better skilled to surf that thin wavering line between bravery and stupidity.
Robert Haston <Robert.Haston@cof.afrc.af.mil>
Patrick AFB , FL USA - Thursday, December 24, 1998 at 10:27:07 (EST)
A very nice gift. Thank you very much
ALVARO J. GONZALEZ G. <ajgonzg@col1.telecom.com.co>
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - Sunday, December 06, 1998 at 18:26:15 (EST)
Greetings. I've just heard your speech this afternoon at the International Traffic Congress here at Porto Alegre.
You really impressed the audience with the researches and conclusions of yours.
As soon as I arrived home, I tried to find this page. Congratulations.
Duarte de Souza Rosa Filho, M.Sc. in Transportation <duarterf@ez-poa.com.br>
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil - Wednesday, November 25, 1998 at 18:50:01 (EST)
I have briefly overviewed the contents of your work and I find it most interesting. I will be reading the contents in greater detail quite soon. However I would be very grateful if you have the opportunity for a little assistance or advice in a research that I am carrying in out at the moment. This concerns human perception of risk in an aquatic sport environment., and how the level of risk perceived by participants affects the aggression demonstrated in the water between aquatic sport particiants. I would appreciate any input fromany persons associated with 'risk perception'.
Thankyou for your time.
Karen ... karenl@cornwall.ac.uk.
Karen Lupson <karenl@cornwall.ac.uk>
newquay, cornwall england - Tuesday, November 24, 1998 at 05:37:32 (EST)
This book has changed by view on road traffic safety forever !! What a monumental piece of work. Dr Wilde, you want to consider the road safety experiences in the state of Victoria, Australia, particularly the successes they achieved with their speed and alcohol law enforcement campaigns. I believe that it will show that with the right type of law enforcement approach one can achieve permanent reductions in people's level of target risk. Am a right in my view that low levels of enforcement and inconsistent enforcement will result in compensatory behaviour while high and consistent levels of enforcement where the risk of detection and punishment is very real will result is lower levels of target risk ?
CJ Mollett <cmollett@pawcroads1.wcape.gov.za>
Cape Town, South Africa - Saturday, November 14, 1998 at 05:32:43 (EST)
I look with a great interest to your book for application in the railway safety
Pierluigi FIRPO <sciro@tin.it>
Genoa, Italy - Wednesday, November 11, 1998 at 09:21:12 (EST)
Finally someone trying to make sense of how to explain why safe and non-safe human behavior occurs (in a very readable manner). I am presently working for the Canadian Coast Guard on developing performance measures for the safety services we provide on the waters of Canada. The problem we were facing, and the reason why I have turned to your book, is the enigma of how to measure our contribution to safe waterways by our activity in Boating safety, (boating safety exhibits/education for example), which is basically a prevention activity. Your book has opened my eyes in terms of the role of the "recipent" in our safety activities. Thank you.
Miriam Van Roosmalen <miriamvr@netcom.ca>
Ottawa, Ontario Canada - Wednesday, October 28, 1998 at 10:38:26 (EST)
I work in a bomb disposal project in Cambodia and I am studying the implications of risk and 'health and safety' studies for humanitarian mine clearance. I'm looking forwards to reading this book.
Robert Keeley <BobKeeley@bigpond.com.kh>
UK - Sunday, October 11, 1998 at 00:51:37 (EDT)
Hello, just printed your TOC to pass on to the chief of the Road Hazard Litigation Section. Looking forward to reading the book.
Henry
Henry M. Bernstein <hmbsport@aol.com>
- Friday, September 25, 1998 at 00:05:18 (EDT)
Hace tiempo estaba buscando un trabajo de investigacion como el suyo; va a ser de mcucha importancia para mi. Gracias
Cesar . Duque A. <7883cad@impsat.net.co>
Bogota, D.C. Colombia - Sunday, August 02, 1998 at 20:54:38 (EDT)
We met at Bracebridge in 1977 HFAC Conf when I was at Buffalo with Colin Drury. I remember you were friendly with Ian Hughes. I havbe had an ongoing but more or less dormant interest in risk momeostasis - sounds good but not sure if it really is. Does your Book help?!
Tim Gallwey <timothy.gallwey@ul.ie>
Limerick, Ireland - Friday, July 31, 1998 at 11:44:43 (EDT)
Looking over your book as I have the responsibility of putting together a "Risk Primer"
for corporate distribution.
I work for Mobil Oil Corp. Our CEO has become disenchanted with our
companies collective vehicular accident fatality rate and has decreed that
that it must be reduced (with, of course the goal of zero fatalities).
Looking forward to reading your book to gain some insight on what will
be required to address this goal.
Frank Rogers <Frank_A_Rogers@email.mobil.com>
Paulsboro, New Jersey USA - Monday, July 20, 1998 at 11:26:09 (EDT)
A good start on a unified theory approach to this topic
joe courtney
- Friday, July 17, 1998 at 09:19:24 (EDT)
Thankyou for making this document available on the web. I am a sociology student at the University of Victoria working on a summer project for the BC Ministry of Transportation and Highways. The focus of my research is "red light runners" and your analysis of risk taking behaviour fits in with the theory we are exploring, that longer intergreen phases lead to increased frequency and severity of accidents. If you have any ideas on where I might be able to locate further information on this phenomenon please let me know.
Thankyou, Denis
Denis O'Brien <denisobrien@sprint.ca>
Victoria, B.C. Canada - Thursday, July 02, 1998 at 12:33:16 (EDT)
Congratulations!
It is really a great work.
It is not so common works on accident-prone people.
otavio bagetti menezes <
bagetti@gold.com.br>
belo horizonte, minas gerais brazil - Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 06:46:03 (EDT)
enjoyed it all
JIM HABERSKI <jimh720113@aol.com>
beach park, il usa - Friday, May 01, 1998 at 17:44:42 (EDT)
It is working now Dr.Wilde!
Marg Lawson <margl@pavlov.psyc.queensu.cd>
Kingston, On Canada - Tuesday, April 07, 1998 at 15:28:00 (EDT)
Looks to be greatly enlightening. I have been thinking about risk for some time nd teaching about it in elementary statistics courses.
Paul J. Campbell
- Tuesday, September 10, 1996 at 03:33:48 (EDT)
Having at look to see if you have anything about taxi driver dangers and workplace environment .
I am the taxicab instructor for the Manitoba Taxicab Board.
Gord Barton
Anola (near Winnipeg), Mb. Ca - Tuesday, September 03, 1996 at 20:06:23 (EDT)
Thanks to Professor Wilde for making this important publication available on the net.
Scott Bleecker
OPP Eastern Region Headquarters
Kingston, Ontario
613-634-4381
Scott Bleecker <bleecks2@epo.gov.on.ca>
Kingston, Ontario Canada - Wednesday, August 21, 1996 at 11:25:45 (EDT)
Looking for background information prior to cantacting Dr. Wilde concerning a television project on risk and accidents.
Martin Stockham <mgsmedia@dircon.co.uk>
London, England - Friday, July 26, 1996 at 13:57:15 (EDT)
Very impressive, Gerry. But you can't read those Web pages in bed!
Chris
Chris Knapper <knapper@psyc.queensu.ca>
Kingston, Ontario Canada - Wednesday, July 17, 1996 at 11:29:38 (EDT)
Good to make contact with you, I look forward to learning more about your ideas.
Lou Mitchell <ljmitch@iastate.edu>
Ames, Iowa USA - Friday, July 12, 1996 at 15:41:41 (EDT)
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Kingston, ON Canada - Saturday, July 06, 1996 at 13:09:41 (EDT)
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