Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
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 >>>>>
If there was ever a disastrous start to the birth of an industry it has to be safety. When Herbert Heinrich published Industrial Accident Prevention in 1931 he launched an industry that would be obsessed with numerics, metrics, counting and misattribution.
Most of what Heinrich concocted was … Learn more >>>>>
The discipline of Social Psychology has a unique evolution that emerges out of the disciplines of: Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, Semiotics, Poetics, Social Politics, Ethics, Post-Structuralism, Neo-Marxism, Education, Dialectics, Discourse Analysis, Feminist Discourse, Anthropology, Annals History, Theology, Philosophy, Ethnography and Deconstruction. Some of these disciplines … Learn more >>>>>
