Fear and Trembling of the Federal Safety Commission (OFSC) It doesn’t matter where I go in the Building and Construction industry there is fear and trembling about an OFSC Audit. The fear and trembling is not about undertaking an audit but about the excessive and petty nature of what the OFSC thinks is important in […]
Safety in The Land of Norom from the Book of Nil
Safety in The Land of Norom from the Book of Nil Chapter One 1:1 And it came to pass in the land of Norom that Adam was convinced that others were evil. These others were the Malamutes, those neighbour aliens who did not believe in Zero, the brother of Safety and Compliance. 1:2 The Malamutes […]
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The Language of Priorities
The Language of Priorities I spoke to a Safety Manager in a construction company recently who comes from one of these ‘safety is our number one priority’ organisations. He told me the reality was that: ‘concrete is our number one priority’. All semiotics have a profound affect on the human unconscious. Words, images, signs, gestures, […]
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Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR)–Study Calendar
Study Calendar for Semester One 2019 Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR) Recent study group in Canberra If you wish to study the Social Psychology of Risk, the training calendar is now out for semester one in 2019. You can register here: https://cllr.com.au/register-to-study/ Non-Australian students can register at any time: https://cllr.com.au/online-courses-overseas-students/ You can […]
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The Search for Meaning in Safety Models
The Search for Meaning in Safety Models There is a huge chasm between three things: the intent and design (assumed philosophy) of a model, the semiotic diffusion of the model and what humans make of the model. Models and symbols are not neutral nor objective. All models are semiotics and as such seek to explain […]
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None so Blind as Those That Don’t Want to See – Due Diligence
None so Blind as Those That Don’t Want to See – Due Diligence Last week Greg Smith and I delivered our Due Diligence workshop which was over subscribed by over 100 registrations. Registrations closed at 28. We will be offering a new set of workshops in 2019 including in New Zealand. As usual we held […]
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No Ethic of Hope in Zero
No Ethic of Hope in Zero The denial of fallibility in the language of zero offers no hope for fallible human beings. Hope is much more than a concept of wishing, naïve optimism nor some unrealistic sense of desire. Hope is always about the unknown future and therefore should be understood as messianically, prophetically, transcendently […]
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New Video Series on Safety
New Video Series on Safety Conversations With Jeff Lyth on A New View of Safety As part of my last visit to Canada Jeff Lyth and I decided to record some casual conversations and reflections (in my motel room) about his work in BC (https://www.qspleadership.com/) and about the safety industry in general. The result […]
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Report on SPoR Convention 2018
Report on SPoR Convention 2018 The growth and development of the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) Community (https://spor.com.au/) was demonstrated this week in the success of the first Convention held in Canberra. Every state, territory and New Zealand were represented in the gathering with heaps of fun and learning focused on the practice of SPoR […]
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The Bunnings Banger Bungle
The Bunnings Banger Bungle No wonder people think that safety is the industry of stupidity. Oh, here comes the safety nerd, the dork wrapped in orgiastic delight in the myth of hyper-safety. Here comes the risk averse wrecker and fun police worried about petty pissy safety (https://safetyrisk.net/petty-pissy-zero-harm/) whilst real risk (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/real-risk/) remains ignored. Petty pissy […]
