Matt and I launched our new book SPoR and Semiotics without much fanfare and this was quite deliberate. This is the thirteenth book released in the Social Psychology of Risk and brings together all of the tools, methods, semiotics and models practiced by SPoR. (FYI, downloads of SPoR books now … [Read more...] about SPoR and Semiotics, A Conversation – Free Download
Book Launch – “Zero, The Great Safety Delusion” – Free Download
Book Launch - Free Download “Zero, The Great Safety Delusion” This book comes just in time for the Zero Conference of Global Safety in November to be held in Sydney. You can get your free download HERE>>>>> Zero remains the greatest plague on the Safety industry. It dominates … [Read more...] about Book Launch – “Zero, The Great Safety Delusion” – Free Download
Investigating Accidents – Who Needs To Learn
Much is written and shared about accident investigations and how to learn from accidents. Yes, a lot of learning comes from understanding the behaviour of people and the context that shapes their behaviour. But a lot of learning can also come from how we create, share and understand the accident … [Read more...] about Investigating Accidents – Who Needs To Learn
Critical Issues in Investigations not Addressed in Latest AIHS BoK Chapter
In all of my time undertaking investigations I have found there is no more important skill than pastoral care. Knowing how to recognise persons who are traumatised and how to respond is critical for any first responders or investigators. Unfortunately, people in safety are not educated in the … [Read more...] about Critical Issues in Investigations not Addressed in Latest AIHS BoK Chapter
Resilience, Another Safety Silence
One of the mind-blowing silences in safety (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-culture-silences/ ) is on resilience. Just like Safety ethics ignores power, helping and care (https://safetyrisk.net/culture-silences-in-safety-care-ethics/) so to, Safety ignores resilience in all its spin about … [Read more...] about Resilience, Another Safety Silence
Ancillary Skills for the Risk and Safety Profession
When you look at what preoccupies conferences and training in safety, you couldn’t help but think that to be a safety person you just need to be a lawyer, a bureaucrat or a police officer. In some organisations the idea of a ‘safety’ position doesn’t even exist rather, they have adopted the language … [Read more...] about Ancillary Skills for the Risk and Safety Profession
The Power and Powerlessness of Safety
When it comes to a discussion of ethics, how curious that Safety never talks about power. In the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics it gets no mention. How strange, when the foundation of any ethic is an understanding of power. This is the level of intelligence one gets from a mono-disciplinary association … [Read more...] about The Power and Powerlessness of Safety
The Rage for Safety Utopia
This is the title of the stirring book by Ronal Conway published in 1992 but I have added the word safety to the title. Conway argues that obsession and compulsion for Utopia is a problem. The idea of Utopia was proposed by the Plato and the word means “no place”. The idea of utopia was later … [Read more...] about The Rage for Safety Utopia
When Myths Collide in Risk
It is strange how the word ‘myth’ is used negatively in the risk and safety world as if to declare something as a myth, is an in-truth. How we determine what is true, real and effective is not that easy. All myth is anchored to faith, not evidence. Most often we develop myths according to our … [Read more...] about When Myths Collide in Risk
Myth as a Helpful Way of Understanding Risk
Myth is a very useful genre when one tries to understand a wicked problem like risk and safety, fallibility and culture. When one understands what myth is (https://safetyrisk.net/understanding-the-myths-and-metaphors-of-safety/) then Risk Makes Sense … [Read more...] about Myth as a Helpful Way of Understanding Risk
About STOP WORK AUTHORITY (SWA)
One of the discussions we have frequently at Safety Leadership courses is about the impossibility of supervisors to be permanently present to supervise the way operators work and ensure that everyone returns home healthy. Occupational safety in companies that have extensive production areas … [Read more...] about About STOP WORK AUTHORITY (SWA)
Understanding The Myths and Metaphors of Safety
In risk and safety, we cannot separate the language we use and its bias, from the way we participate subjectively in our thinking and speaking in risk. The metaphors we use come from our unconscious use of language and condition the way communication is received. See further Metaphors We Live By … [Read more...] about Understanding The Myths and Metaphors of Safety