• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SafetyRisk.net

Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk

  • Home
    • About
      • Privacy Policy
      • Contact
  • FREE
    • Slogans
      • Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time
      • When Slogans Don’t Work
      • CLASSIC, FAMOUS and INFAMOUS SAFETY QUOTES
      • 500 OF THE BEST AND WORST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2023
      • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
      • COVID-19 (Coronavirus, Omicron) Health and Safety Slogans and Quotes for the Workplace
      • Safety Acronyms
      • You know Where You Can Stick Your Safety Slogans
      • Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple
      • Spanish Safety Slogans – Consignas de seguridad
      • Safety Slogans List
      • Road Safety Slogans 2023
      • How to write your own safety slogans
      • Why Are Safety Slogans Important
      • Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
      • 40 Free Safety Slogans For the Workplace
      • Safety Slogans for Work
    • FREE SAFETY eBOOKS
    • Free Hotel and Resort Risk Management Checklist
    • FREE DOWNLOADS
    • TOP 50
    • FREE RISK ASSESSMENT FORMS
    • Find a Safety Consultant
    • Free Safety Program Documents
    • Psychology Of Safety
    • Safety Ideas That Work
    • HEALTH and SAFETY MANUALS
    • FREE SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENT RESOURCES
    • Whats New In Safety
    • FUN SAFETY STUFF
    • Health and Safety Training
    • SAFETY COURSES
    • Safety Training Needs Analysis and Matrix
    • Top 20 Safety Books
    • This Toaster Is Hot
    • Free Covid-19 Toolbox Talks
    • Download Page – Please Be Patient With Larger Files…….
    • SAFETY IMAGES, Photos, Unsafe Pictures and Funny Fails
    • How to Calculate TRIFR, LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators
    • Download Safety Moments from Human Resources Secretariat
  • Social Psychology Of Risk
    • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
    • Safety Psychology Terminology
    • Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk – Prof Karl E. Weick
    • The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
    • Conducting a Psychology and Culture Safety Walk
    • The Psychology of Conversion – 20 Tips to get Started
    • Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety
    • Psychology and safety
    • The Psychology of Safety
    • Hot Toaster
    • TALKING RISK VIDEOS
    • WHAT IS SAFETY
    • THE HOT TOASTER
    • THE ZERO HARM DEBATE
    • SEMIOTICS
    • LEADERSHIP
  • Dr Long Posts
    • ALL POSTS
    • Learning Styles Matter
    • There is no Hierarchy of Controls
    • Scaffolding, Readiness and ZPD in Learning
    • What Can Safety Learn From Playschool?
    • Presentation Tips for Safety People
    • Dialogue Do’s and Don’ts
    • It’s Only a Symbol
    • Ten Cautions About Safety Checklists
    • Zero is Unethical
    • First Report on Zero Survey
    • There is No Objectivity, Deal With it!
  • THEMES
    • Risk Myths
    • Safety Myths
    • Safety Culture Silences
    • Safety Culture
    • Psychological Health and Safety
    • Zero Harm
    • Due Diligence
  • Free Learning
    • Introduction to SPoR – Free
    • FREE RISK and SAFETY EBOOKS
    • FREE ebook – Guidance for the beginning OHS professional
    • Free EBook – Effective Safety Management Systems
    • Free EBook – Lessons I Have Learnt
  • Psychosocial Safety
    • What is Psychosocial Safety
    • Psychological Safety
      • What is Psychological Health and Safety at Work?
      • Managing psychosocial hazards at work
      • Psychological Safety – has it become the next Maslow’s hammer?
      • What is Psychosocial Safety
      • Psychological Safety Slogans and Quotes
      • What is Psychological Safety?
      • Understanding Psychological Terminology
      • Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
      • Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
      • It’s not weird – it’s a psychological safety initiative!
You are here: Home / Due Diligence / 200,000 SPoR Book Downloads

200,000 SPoR Book Downloads

September 13, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

200,000 SPoR Book Downloads

imageWe’ve had a few milestones lately, first with the 1000th blog (https://safetyrisk.net/celebrating-1000-blogs-on-risk/ ) and now with over 200,000 book sales/downloads of Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). This is in addition to over 100,000 video downloads (https://vimeo.com/humandymensions ). The most popular video download of all time is on Paperwork (https://vimeo.com/162034157 ). No surprises there.

3. PAPERWORK from Human Dymensions on Vimeo.

The most popular book download of all time has been Fallibility and Risk, Living With Uncertainty (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/fallibility-risk-living-uncertainty/ ). There are however, 10 books for free download in the SPoR series (https://www.humandymensions.com/shop/ ).

Along with these interests has also been thousands of people subscribing to the quarterly newsletter that is jam packed with research in SPoR. You can see the newsletter archive here: https://spor.com.au/downloads/newsletter-archive/ and subscribe here: admin@cllr.com.au

When I started offering a free Introduction to SPoR I had no idea I would so overloaded with registrations from all over the globe, with each cohort being oversubscribed. People are starting to register for the next session even though it doesn’t commence till Feb 2022 (https://cllr.com.au/product/an-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk-unit-1-free-online-module/ ).

Little did I know when I published my first book Risk Makes Sense in 2012 (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/risk-makes-sense/ ) that 10 years later there would be so much interest in SPoR. SPoR offers balanced, practical, positive help to anyone wishing to better tackle risk.

It is clear that SPoR has hit a nerve in the risk and safety industry with so many wanting to move away from traditional safety, systems safety, zero and brutalism, so that safety improves (https://safetyrisk.net/moving-away-from-zero-so-that-safety-improves/ ).

Then with each newsletter or blog, book, video or module I receive so much encouragement. People say they resonate with the voice raised that exposes how safety demonises people and how little help they receive help from traditional safety. Particularly, so many encourage my message against zero. No wonder, our online survey demonstrates (https://spor.com.au/zero-vision-survey/ ) that 85% of risk and safety people don’t believe in it. More so, the same percentage of people see zero as dangerous, dishonest and unethical. And with all the associations anchored to zero then wonder why people don’t want to become members. When an ideology takes you into a religious-like cult (https://safetyrisk.net/the-spirit-of-zero/ ) why would you join?

The topic that attracts the most demand of all the topics I write or speak on is Ethics. People realize that none of the industry associations or groups come close to helping them with the fundamental ethical challenges they face each day. They say that the industry talks about ‘ethical responsibility’ and yet at no time defines what that means? Similarly, the industry offers no help or skill development in enacting ‘ethical responsibility’. When the best you can offer is ‘check your gut’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-aihs-bok-and-ethics-check-your-gut/ ) you would be right to think you are being set up for a flogging. Can you imagine what a legal professional would do with this amateurish stuff in court? (https://www.waylandlegal.com.au/ ) Yep, roll up roll up for your belting and blame under the guise of CPD points. After all, you don’t even need the AIHS BoK on ethics because it tells Safety that it is innately ethical and objective! You couldn’t make this s*^t up!

Unfortunately, when you’re left ‘high and dry’, when something goes wrong and your templates and checklists are used against you in court (https://safetyrisk.net/the-seduction-of-templates-set-and-forget/ ), I wonder where that ‘ethical responsibility’ goes? I wonder how that ‘ethical responsibility’ sits with an industry that doesn’t provide the resources and skills you need to act professionally? You’re on your own baby. Reminds me of a conversation I had once with a crane driver who lost his house and marriage over a fatality and court case that went on for 5 years. I could tell similar stories from Beaconsfield.

When you need an ethical advocate in the times when things go wrong it won’t be Safety, it will be someone like Greg Smith (https://vimeo.com/showcase/3938199 ). And one of the first things Greg (https://mysafetythoughts.com/about/ ) will advise as your advocate is, don’t show the court that safety mumbo jumbo stuff. The semiotics of curves, pyramids, swiss-cheese, matrices, TRIFR, zero, slogans and bow-ties will get pulled apart quickly by the court that hasn’t swallowed the safety Kool aide (https://vimeo.com/166158437 ). None of these can demonstrate ‘ethical responsibility’. As Greg often says none of these provide a ‘defendable position’ … and let’s hope your testimony is congruent with your paperwork. Because you might find out quickly that you are only ‘papersafe’ (https://www.waylandlegal.com.au/paper-safe ). You might discover very quickly that what you have been doing makes your workplace less safe (https://novellus.solutions/podcast/the-dangers-of-safety-bureaucracy/ ).

None of this safety stuff demonstrates you have exercised Due Diligence (https://mysafetythoughts.com/due-diligence-program/ ) or ‘ethical responsibility’ (https://www.waylandlegal.com.au/blog ). No amount of paperwork can demonstrate ‘ethical responsibility’ to a court when the best you can use to demonstrate professionalism is safety mythology.

BTW, you won’t find an ethic of advocacy in the AIHS BoK nor any clarity about ‘ethical responsibility’.

I guess this is why so many turn to the positive alternative and messages in SPoR. In SPoR you are not left high and dry to work out your own ethic of risk. Be assured ‘ethical responsibility’ is not about bumbling along in a vacuum or ‘slogan fest’ provided by an indolent industry, an industry so keen to use the work ‘professional’ without any of the ethical foundations necessary to demonstrate such. There is still nothing globally in the safety industry or its curriculum that offers support and intelligence about ‘ethical responsibility’. Indeed, the ideology of zero works against any possibility of ‘ethical responsibility’. If you want to understand ‘ethical responsibility’ perhaps you could start here: https://cllr.com.au/product/an-ethic-of-risk-workshop-unit-17-elearning/.

But this is not just empty critique (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-critical-thinking-in-safety/ ). SPoR offers positive skills, tools, helping, iCue competence and practical methods to ensure that what you do works (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/it-works-a-new-approach-to-risk-and-safety/ ). Otherwise, why would a large global organisation move away from traditional safety and zero to SPoR if what they were doing worked?

  • Bio
  • Latest Posts
  • More about Rob
Dr Rob Long

Dr Rob Long

Expert in Social Psychology, Principal & Trainer at Human Dymensions
Dr Rob Long

Latest posts by Dr Rob Long (see all)

  • Not Just Another ‘Hazard’ - February 3, 2023
  • Work-Life and Risk, Feminine Perspectives - February 3, 2023
  • How to Be Oriented Towards Psychosocial and Mental Health in Safety - February 2, 2023
  • Free Download – Real Risk – New Book by Dr Robert Long - February 2, 2023
  • ISO 45003 and What it Cannot Do - February 1, 2023
Dr Rob Long
PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.

Please share our posts

  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Ethics, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK on Ethics, SPoR

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Robert Long says

    September 15, 2021 at 10:26 AM

    Thanks John.

    Reply
  2. John Culvenor says

    September 13, 2021 at 8:38 PM

    Awesome!

    Reply
  3. Mark Gardiner says

    September 13, 2021 at 6:56 PM

    Fantastic Rob! I’m so glad others are willing to open their minds

    Reply
    • Robert Long says

      September 15, 2021 at 10:27 AM

      Thanks Mark

      Reply
  4. Ric Whipp says

    September 13, 2021 at 6:06 PM

    That’s one hell of an achievement Rob, congratulations. I know I have learnt much much more about life for doing the SPOR and more recently the Ethics module, thank you for all you do.

    Reply
    • Rob long says

      September 13, 2021 at 6:46 PM

      A pleasure Richard. Thanks for your encouragement.

      Reply

Do you have any thoughts? Please share them below Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Search and Discover More on this Site

Never miss a post - Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,500 other subscribers

RECOMMENDED READING

viral post – iso 45003 and what it cannot do

Introduction to SPOR – FREE!!

Psychosocial Safety and Mental Health Series

Not Just Another ‘Hazard’

Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?

How to Be Oriented Towards Psychosocial and Mental Health in Safety

ISO 45003 and What it Cannot Do

The KISS of Death in Safety

Behavioural Safety is NOT a Foundation for Tackling Psychosocial and Mental Health

The Worst Approach to Psychosocial Problems is an Attitude of ‘Fixing’

The Language of ‘Hazards’ and Psychosocial, Mental Health

Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)

No Good Reason to Follow Reason

More Posts from this Category

NEW! Free Download

Please take our 2 minute zero survey

Recent Comments

  • Not Simply One other ‘Hazard’ - Personal Safety News on Not Just Another ‘Hazard’
  • Rob Long on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • simon p cassin on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • simon p cassin on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • Rob long on How to Be Oriented Towards Psychosocial and Mental Health in Safety
  • Rob Long on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • Rob Long on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • Matt Thorne on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • simon p cassin on Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • Hurak Learning on How to Be Oriented Towards Psychosocial and Mental Health in Safety
  • Rob Long on An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video
  • Paul Gentles on An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video
  • Brent Charlton on The KISS of Death in Safety
  • Rob Long on The KISS of Death in Safety
  • Brian Edwin Darlington on The KISS of Death in Safety
  • Brian on The Language of ‘Hazards’ and Psychosocial, Mental Health
  • Jaise on The Language of ‘Hazards’ and Psychosocial, Mental Health
  • Rob Long on Posture Myths and Holistic Ergonomics
  • Linda McKendry on Posture Myths and Holistic Ergonomics
  • Rob long on Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)

FREE eBOOK DOWNLOADS

Footer

VIRAL POST – The Risk Matrix Myth

Top Posts & Pages. Sad that most are so dumb but this is what safety luves

  • 500 OF THE BEST AND WORST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 2023
  • Free Safety Moments and Toolbox Talk Examples, Tips and Resources
  • Road Safety Slogans 2023
  • Proving Safety
  • CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE
  • NATIONAL SAFETY DAY/WEEK IN INDIA 2023
  • Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • 15 Safety Precautions When Working With Electricity
  • Safety Acronyms
  • Not Just Another ‘Hazard’

Recent Posts

  • Not Just Another ‘Hazard’
  • Work-Life and Risk, Feminine Perspectives
  • Psychosocial Safety, Is it possible to make it culturally normal?
  • How to Be Oriented Towards Psychosocial and Mental Health in Safety
  • Free Download – Real Risk – New Book by Dr Robert Long
  • Proving Safety
  • ISO 45003 and What it Cannot Do
  • Harming People in the Name of Good
  • An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video
  • Risk and Safety Maturity
  • The KISS of Death in Safety
  • SPoR, Metanoia and a Podcast on Change with Nippin Anand
  • Behavioural Safety is NOT a Foundation for Tackling Psychosocial and Mental Health
  • The Worst Approach to Psychosocial Problems is an Attitude of ‘Fixing’
  • SPoR Comes to Vienna June 2023
  • The Language of ‘Hazards’ and Psychosocial, Mental Health
  • Welcome to the Nightmare, Safety Creates its Own Minefield (as usual)
  • The Visionary Imagination – Louisa Lawson
  • Heaven ‘n Hell and the Safety Religion
  • Confirmity in Conformity
  • Numerology and Psychic Numbing
  • Thinking of Mortality
  • Safety is the Wrong Anchor
  • Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk
  • Getting the Balance Right in Tackling Risk
  • What is SPoR?
  • How Bias Inhibits Learning in Safety
  • Afraid to Let Go of What Doesn’t Work in Safety
  • When You Don’t Know What to do in Safety, Have Another Blitz!!!
  • Gloves and Glasses Compliance
  • A Case of Desensitisation – What Would You Do?
  • How to Leave the Safety Industry
  • The Mythic Symbology of Safety
  • Dark Waters, The True Story of DuPont and Zero
  • 400,000 Free Downloads
  • Am I stupid? I didn’t think of that…
  • Don’t Look Now Safety, Your Metaphor is Showing
  • Ratio Delusions and Heinrich’s Hoax
  • To Err is Human, You Better Believe It
  • Culture as a Wicked Problem, for Safety
  • Safety Leadership Training
  • Cultural Orientation in Risk
  • The Stanford Experiment and The Social Psychology of Risk
  • Objectivity, Audits and Attribution When Calculating Risk
  • Records of safety activities: evidence of safety or non-compliance?
  • Zero, The Seeking of Infinity
  • Safety Leadership Essentials
  • What Can Indiana Jones Tell Us About Culture
  • Safety as a Worldview
  • The Loathing of Limits

VIRAL POST!!! HOW TO QUIT THE SAFETY INDUSTRY

FEATURED POSTS

When Slogans Don’t Work

Certificate, Diploma and Masters Studies in SPoR

Free Online Introduction to the Social Psychology of Risk

Surfacing – Making the Unconscious Conscious

Predictably Arational, Safety as a Superstition

The Tyranny of Absolutes

Investigations and Heuristics

Symbols Matter

Anxiety and Fear Professionals

Is Risk and Safety Perfectionism a Disorder?

Forecasting Safety

A Conference with a Difference

Investigations and Power

SEEK Investigations Workshop

What is the Mind of Safety?

Diagnosing Safety

Intuition and Safety

Until Nothing Changes in Safety

Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently

Transdisciplinary Safety

Looking Forward, Looking Back

Shock and Fear in Safety

Understanding Safety Myths

More Realistic Swiss Cheese Symbol

The Sully Effect

Affirming Chance

What Does SPoR Do?

Themes and Concepts in Risk – Requests

Investigations and Truth Telling

Why Safety is Inescapably Theological

Learning from people who we don’t agree with

Managing the Unexpected

The Curse of Behaviourism

Online Inductions and Safety Effectiveness

The Bias of Method Design in Risk

Starting Points, Worldviews and Risk

Blind Faith in Safety

Training Workshops CLLR April to July 2020

Living In Glass Houses

There is no way I would do that!

More Posts from this Category

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address and join other discerning risk and safety people who receive notifications of new posts by email

Join 7,500 other subscribers

How we pay for the high cost of running of this site – try it for free on your site

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY?

What is Psychological Safety at Work?


WHAT IS PSYCHOSOCIAL SAFETY