Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Methodology frames method. Methodology is not method despite the fact that many use the words interchangeably. A methodology is a philosophy, it is what drives method and its most important to be able to distinguish one from the other.
If one experiences brutalism in … Learn more >>>>>
When we understand the world semiotically as Lotman articulates, we don’t see a biosphere but we see a semiosphere . This changes how one ‘sees’ the world. We envision the world ‘differently’ (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/envisioning-risk-seeing-vision-and-meaning-in-risk/). For a semiotician, objects are no longer understood as engineering … Learn more >>>>>
Study in Semiotics demonstrates that congruence in messaging improves communication, incongruence creates miss-messaging. In order for communication to be effective there needs to be congruence not just in text, language and discourse (power in language) but also in para-linguistics (gesture, image, icon and symbol). The … Learn more >>>>>
One of the favourite words of the safety sector is ‘controls’. Hazards and controls, that’s the scope of safety.
However, the moment one engages in an ethic of risk one learns that life and being are not that simple. There is no objective, neutral notion … Learn more >>>>>
When it comes to risk and safety, method is critical. Brutalizing and dehumanizing people to get a safety outcome doesn’t work (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/it-works-a-new-approach-to-risk-and-safety/ ).
The best way to ensure a humanizing outcome in safety is to move away from zero, numerics and metrics and to focus … Learn more >>>>>
