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We Don’t Want Workers to Think Consciously at Work
The drive to work efficiency is paradoxically also the drive to make humans work unconsciously in automaticity. Any, effort to ...
Stop Saying ‘Complacency’, Its Meaningless
Anyone who actually understands the nature of human decision-making, neuro-psychology and neuroscience, knows that the word ‘complacency’ explains nothing. Next ...
More Safety Beliefs by Semiotics
I saw recently a so called ‘safety expert’ discussing the nature of safety methodologies. Despite no understanding what is methodology ...
You Practice What You Believe and You Believe What You Practice
Discussing beliefs or leaps of faith is not an academic idea after all, all workers each day make many leaps ...
Belief and Faith in Safety
The root meaning of the word for ‘belief’ is closely connected to the meaning of the word ‘faith’. Neither automatically ...
Unconscious Error in Safety, The Complacency Projection
So much of the discourse in safety is about judgement of intent. We see this demonstrated in the language of ...
Safety Beliefs by Semiotic Evidence
If you want to know what safety believes, look no further than its semiotics, curriculum and language/discourse. If one really ...
What is Justice in Safety – Video Part Two
In our previous video we tackled the challenging question: What is Justice in safety? (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-justice-in-safety-a-video/) In this conversation with Desai ...
Can You Influence Safety Beliefs?
The short answer is yes. The longer answer is, it depends. The extended answer is, how much time have you ...
Believing is Embodied, The Foundation for New Beliefs in Safety
So much of the semiotic of safety is about brains, supporting the metaphor and myth that the brain directs thinking ...
Free Workshops – Understanding Safety Beliefs
This is your last opportunity to register for the workshop series on Safety beliefs. The workshops will be held on ...
The Weick Collection
In SPoR, we have been teaching a module on the work of Prof. Karl. E. Weick since 2014. We are ...