Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
It is always a fascination to watch engineering and safety science immerse itself deeply into the life of sacred practice and salvation theology. Of course neither discipline has knowledge of religious studies or theology and doesn’t know just how religious it has become. Only a transdisciplinary … Learn more >>>>>
One of the challenges of tackling risk is ‘satisficing’. Human persons cannot know everything and so each day based on limited knowledge, venture forward not knowing the outcome. Each new step is a step of unknowing in risk but also a step in learning. … Learn more >>>>>
What one thinks and feels about safety is defined by a worldview/ontology (theory of being). Any discussion about safety is therefore a philosophical discussion and a very subjective discussion at that. The idea that safety is a definable quanta is nonsense that lasts as … Learn more >>>>>
It seems the moment one falls for the zero cult a whole range of ‘f’ words become anathema. Safety is so good at being noisy about words of perfection and judgement but also good at being selectively silent about a range of … Learn more >>>>>
Deleuze rightly states that the idea of common sense is: a dogmatic, orthodox and moral image of thought.
To recognise this is the first step in critical thought. If one cares to think about presuppositions in suppositions, then one is well on the way to … Learn more >>>>>
