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June 26, 2019June 26, 2019

Two Week Intensive Workshops 5-16 August 2019 Canberra

Join participants from Europe and Canada in Canberra for the first Intensive series of study workshops on 5-16 August 2019. https://spor.com.au/home/two-week-intensive-4-modules-august-2019/ Australian and New Zealand participants have already registered for one, two or all workshops. International participants registered so far include executives from Mondi (Austria), Transcanada Oil and Gas and, Kelvinator (Nuclear, Sweden). The …

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June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

Understanding Habit, Habituation and Change

Despite all humans know about technology, space and war we have no idea why or how people change. Whilst we know in hindsight what the tipping point is (Gladwell), we have no idea why people convert from one thing to another. I recently read Sunstein’s book ‘How Change Happens’ and apart from the misleading …

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June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

Proof of Safety is not Through Paperwork

The excesses of paperwork in the risk and safety industry is evidence of the mythology that paperwork demonstrates safety. Similarly the idea that numerics and metrics demonstrate safety is based on the same delusion. All data whether quantitative or qualitative is interpreted, there is no such thing as objective data. The delusion that volume and …

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June 20, 2019June 20, 2019

A Fountainhead of Safety? – The Australian Institute of Heinrich and Skinner

History never says goodbye - It really means see you later Eduardo Galeano A Karl Marx essay, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon is the source of a renowned quote from many historians…….History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. It reflects and aligns with Hegel’s philosophy regarding the apparent reincarnation of tragic global …

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June 17, 2019June 17, 2019

Can There Be Other Valid Worldviews Than Safety?

Can There Be Other Valid Worldviews Than Safety? This is the challenge worldviews is the challenge of the unknown unknowns. How can I know another worldview, when all I know is my own? Can there be a different view of the world other than the lens I use to see it? Could it be that …

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Two Week Intensive Workshops 5-16 August 2019 Canberra

Understanding Habit, Habituation and Change

Proof of Safety is not Through Paperwork

A Fountainhead of Safety? – The Australian Institute of Heinrich and Skinner

Can There Be Other Valid Worldviews Than Safety?