The Blindspot Before the Disaster

A Safety Model for Developing Organisational Foresight
Release date: 7 October 2026 | Hardback and eBook | 214 pages

Major disasters are not random. Before Deepwater Horizon, Grenfell Tower, Pike River and the Space Shuttle losses, the warning signs were already there. They went unseen, and not by accident.

This book sets out the Blindspot Model. It identifies five organisational conditions that combine to destroy visibility of risk: Signal Attenuation, Normalised Tolerance, Structural Secrecy, Production Gravity and Leadership Detachment. The model draws on four decades of disaster research and is tested against eleven major industrial catastrophes.

It is written for leaders, safety professionals and governance practitioners working in high-consequence environments.

Want to test your own organisation against the model now? Try the free Blindspot Diagnostic.

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Understanding Criminal Liability for Workplace Harm in Australia

The Reasonably Practicable Standard
Release date: 13 October 2026 | eBook | 136 pages

Why do some WHS prosecutions succeed while others fail? This book answers that question from the court record.

It works through real Australian decisions in three categories: industrial manslaughter, officer liability, and psychosocial harm. Each case is examined the same way. The incident, the charge, the prosecution case, the defence, the judicial reasoning and the sentence.

The pattern that emerges is consistent. Courts apply the reasonably practicable standard in ways that can be understood and anticipated. That matters to anyone whose decisions may one day be tested in court: officers, directors, safety leaders, regulators and legal practitioners.