The best way to understand HOP is to see how HOP describes itself. Examine the language of the following: https://blog.intelex.com/2021/07/27/the-5-basic-principles-of-hop-human-and-organizational-performance/ The premise of HOP is the idea that human error is inevitable so perhaps … [Read more...] about HOP is Traditional Safety
The Phenomena of Risk Series
By Simon Renatus Sunday, 6 October 2024 12:35 PM I knew what they were looking for. “That’s very interesting, Simon, but it’s not what we’re after. We encourage e play, but the procedure clearly specifies an ICAM for this kind of incident, so can you please rework it in the correct form by close … [Read more...] about The Phenomena of Risk Series
Defining Safety by the Absence of Accidents, Injury and Harm
When you run a traditional safety movement off the back of 5 slogans with no articulated methodology or ethic, you’re bound to run into problems. For example: the slogan ‘when nothing happens, a lot is happening’, defines safety by the absence of accidents, injury, harm and error. This is just … [Read more...] about Defining Safety by the Absence of Accidents, Injury and Harm
SAFETY TOPICS FOR MANAGEMENT MEETINGS
Employee safety is the topic that must be permanently on the agenda of top managers. Below are some statements that can generate constructive discussions and align the management team to a common safety vision. Safety subjects to be discussed in your next management meeting: HAZARD. Under … [Read more...] about SAFETY TOPICS FOR MANAGEMENT MEETINGS
Are You Creating an ‘Obeyience Culture’?
Are You Creating an ‘Obeyience Culture’? When I started consulting in risk and safety, people would regularly contact me and ask “are we meeting our legal requirements?” or “are we doing all we need to do, ‘under the law’”. Consulting in risk and safety seems to attract these questions, and people … [Read more...] about Are You Creating an ‘Obeyience Culture’?
Visual and Verbal Mapping of Risk in SPoR
One of the methods of SPoR is visual and verbal mapping. We call this method iCue© (https://safetyrisk.net/beginner-intermediate-and-advanced-icue-skills/) and it is being successfully implemented around the globe in many organisations. In our book It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety … [Read more...] about Visual and Verbal Mapping of Risk in SPoR
Making Nothing Happen in Safety
One of the slogans of HOP is: ‘when nothing happens, a lot is happening’. Of course, the language of this discourse doesn’t make sense unless one is initiated in the discourse of HOP. But when nothing happens, nothing happens, that’s the sense of the language. This kind of language is just HOP code … [Read more...] about Making Nothing Happen in Safety
Understanding the Nature of Performance and HOP
The best way to understand the nature of performance is NOT through safety or business studies. The modern interpretation of performance through the lens of safety and business studies is mechanistic, behaviourist and a total distraction from a real understanding of performance. If we go back to … [Read more...] about Understanding the Nature of Performance and HOP
Forecasting Safety
Here’s the challenge for anyone who holds to the mantra ‘all accidents are preventable’. Ask them to predict how long it will be in their organisation or any organisation for that matter, that they will be harm free. Hopefully they will go to their injury data and based on the history of injury at … [Read more...] about Forecasting Safety
Culture Cloud Tour part 9; Language, Linguistics and Paralinguistics
We resume the culture cloud tour after a week’s hiatus, because even Dave C needs a break from work and a holiday. Hope you are well rested and relaxed in the run up to Christmas mate! Language as a part of Culture is foundational. How you organisation expresses itself, the common language, and … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud Tour part 9; Language, Linguistics and Paralinguistics
