The focus of safety on performance has been about for 45 years. Tarrants’ book The Measurement of Safety Performance was published in 1980. The book was published by The American Society of Safety Engineers that changed its name in 2018 to The American Society of Safety Professionals. The name may … [Read more...] about Good Old Safety Performance
How Do You DO Safety Differently?
In the tradition of nonsense language in HOP, where ‘blame fixes nothing’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-blame-game-of-hop/) and slogans are declared ‘truths’. There seems little consciousness of ensuring that Safety doesn’t speak nonsense to people … [Read more...] about How Do You DO Safety Differently?
Research Interview Podcast – SPoR and Jung
As part of her PhD studies Aneta Darlington is interviewing people across the globe who practice SPoR on what they know about C.G.Jung and, how this is relevant to leadership and risk. In this podcast Aneta interviews Decebal Marin, Director of Corporate Dynamics in Romania. You can view the … [Read more...] about Research Interview Podcast – SPoR and Jung
Podcast – What Jung Can Contribute to Safety – Part One
The Jungian view of the world can offer a great deal to the world of risk and safety. However, to embrace what Jung can offer, requires considerable unlearning of the dominant worldview of Safety. What Jung can offer Safety is: alternate views of personhood, the nature of energies that drive … [Read more...] about Podcast – What Jung Can Contribute to Safety – Part One
Relationships as Therapy for Mental Health, A Note for Safety
We know that most mental health needs are not met with professional services but with Everyday Social Resilience. We also know that factors contributing to poor mental health are highly complex and not just the result of trauma. The recent release of the Royal Commission report into Defence and … [Read more...] about Relationships as Therapy for Mental Health, A Note for Safety
Culture Cloud part 7: Ethics, Personhood, Moral Philosophy and Politics
These are a big group of four when it comes to understanding Culture. It tis important to understand what it means to be a person. Just a person. It is not their mind body, it is embodiment, we cannot have parts of them, it needs to exist as whole to be an Embodied Person. And once we wrap our … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud part 7: Ethics, Personhood, Moral Philosophy and Politics
Culture Cloud part 6: Embodied Learning
Embodied Learning and Somatics: When we understand the somatic and kinaesthetic nature of human embodied action we know that the whole body participates in decision making and that the brain is NOT a computer. The use of this computer metaphor is as silly as thinking of the human eye as a camera. … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud part 6: Embodied Learning
Comply Or Be Human
I have been involved with safety in Australia for the past 15 years. In that period I would like to think I have grown and learned or would it be better to say try to understand what drives and motivates people to do certain things. I hear on several different job sites I have been on we have to … [Read more...] about Comply Or Be Human
Cultivating Resilience
Cultivating Resilience When I think of resilience one of the metaphors I would never associate with it would be engineering. Resilience is a human (social psychological), evolutionary and organic ‘way of being’. The idea of imposing a mechanistic mindset on resilience just doesn’t make sense. … [Read more...] about Cultivating Resilience
The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership
Reflection from the late GEORGE ROBOTHAM - See his other articles HERE This is probably one of the most significant pieces of work that I have published for sometime. I have been involved with its evolution for quite a while now and it has been peer reviewed of over 50 professionals and modified … [Read more...] about The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership
