Themes and Concepts in Risk - Requests You may have noticed a change in our drop-down menu. The purpose of this is to try and capture blogs into common themes so they can be found in one easy link. So, at the moment we have noted themes such as: zero, culture, culture silences, myths, due … [Read more...] about Themes and Concepts in Risk – Requests
Free Advanced iCue ™ Workshops
This offer is only available for those with foundation studies in SPoR. If you have NOT studied SPoR previously please do not apply. Places are strictly limited to 50. All 4 workshops will be conducted via Zoom. You can register by emailing: robertlong2@icloud.com Registrations close 10 October … [Read more...] about Free Advanced iCue ™ Workshops
The Perils Of Planning
Conversations on the Couch – The Perils of Planning Latest Video by Gab Carlton and Rob Sams. See the whole series HERE In risk and safety, and in life, we do a lot of planning. This can include things safety management plans, daily work plans and in life we are planning all the time - what to … [Read more...] about The Perils Of Planning
Social Psychology of Risk – Body of Knowledge
I first came up with the idea of a Social Psychology of Risk in 2003. This came about as a range of experiences and studies fused together in that year. The more I discussed the Social Psychology of Risk, published books and delivered training in the discipline, the more I realized that this was not … [Read more...] about Social Psychology of Risk – Body of Knowledge
Tackling the Challenge of Heuristics in Safety
The recognition of heuristics as the foundation for all human decision making is critical to skill development and implementation of SPoR (https://safetyrisk.net/spor-and-disposing-of-bad-myths/) in the workplace. One of the silly myths of behaviourism in safety is the complete ignorance of … [Read more...] about Tackling the Challenge of Heuristics in Safety
Safety Dogma
Dogma is the systematic assertion of a set of principles as incontrovertibly true, especially as given by an authoritative source. The notion of dogma is most associated with religious tenets of faith declared without evidence. The idea of dogma comes from the language of doctrine and is usually … [Read more...] about Safety Dogma
You Can Put Safety Into Engineering but, You Can’t Get Engineering Out of Safety
‘A person cannot possibly seek what he knows, and, just as impossibly, he cannot seek what he does not know, for what he knows he cannot seek, since he knows it, and what he does not know he cannot seek, because, after all, he does not even know what is supposed to seek.’ (Kierkegaard, 1844). If … [Read more...] about You Can Put Safety Into Engineering but, You Can’t Get Engineering Out of Safety
The Yo-Yo Delusion and Conversations About Risk
The Yo-Yo Delusion and Conversations About Risk When we were kids we used to love the yo-yo craze. It was a time when a particular soft drink company got plenty of free promotion and yo-yo champions dazzled everyone. To view a recent yo-yo champion see here … [Read more...] about The Yo-Yo Delusion and Conversations About Risk
The Primacy of Play in Learning
The Primacy of Play in Learning One of the world experts on Learning is Sir Ken Robinson. His recent video on play (watch it below) provides a nice outline of the essentials in learning through discovery, imagination, creativity and free unconstrained activity/thinking. Although Robinson’s work is … [Read more...] about The Primacy of Play in Learning
The Myth of Normal
The work of Gabor Mate should be of interest to anyone in the sphere of HEALTH and safety. Mate (Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction) reminds us … [Read more...] about The Myth of Normal
