Social Resilience Today’s drop with Matt Thorne from RiskDiversity, Dave Whitefield from Semiosphere and Andrew Thornhillfrom Clarity Enabled, Episode 5 “Social Resilience” with Gabrielle Carlton, Head of Workplace Wellbeing & Education at Mental Illness Education ACT (MIEACT) “Sometimes we just want the silver bullet” “It’s understanding that it is not black and white” “Living in […]
An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety
An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety We saw this week an ex-Prime Minister of Australia (Tony Abbott) caught on camera at a public beach without a mask . He was fined $500 for breaking the law. Abbott then came out in the media and stated that: The law is interpreted and was wrong and That […]
200,000 SPoR Book Downloads
200,000 SPoR Book Downloads We’ve had a few milestones lately, first with the 1000th blog (https://safetyrisk.net/celebrating-1000-blogs-on-risk/ ) and now with over 200,000 book sales/downloads of Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). This is in addition to over 100,000 video downloads (https://vimeo.com/humandymensions ). The most popular video download of all time is on Paperwork (https://vimeo.com/162034157 ). No […]
What is Critical Thinking in Safety?
What is Critical Thinking in Safety? Everyone thinks but not all think critically…. There are countless books out there on supposed ‘critical thinking skills’ but many are not about critical thinking. Many of these books don’t even define critical thinking well. Let’s take for example Cottrell, S., (2005) Critical Thinking Skills, Developing Effective Analysis and […]
The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget
The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget Image Source One of the favourite activities of Safety is downloading and sharing templates. This is promoted by the idea that paperwork is an end in itself. Once the paperwork is completed in comes ‘set and forget’, nothing to worry about except the next version updates! One of […]
