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The Nonsense of ‘Safety Awareness’

October 1, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the characteristics of the culture of Safety is throwing about terminology with not a clue what it means. Then once the code word is spoken everyone thinks they have an explanation. A classic example is the meaningless term ‘safety awareness’ paraded ignorantly in this incident investigation … [Read more...] about The Nonsense of ‘Safety Awareness’

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: complacency, heuristics, safety awareness

When You Don’t Know, Just Make S4*t Up

September 30, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I get sent so much each day by safety people who want me to criticise and make comment. Most often this is because they tell me they cannot or they will lose their job. This is the culture of safety that forbids criticism, makes dissent taboo and holds compliance as a sacred decree. This is the … [Read more...] about When You Don’t Know, Just Make S4*t Up

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Zero is Founded on Deceit and Lies

September 29, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Telling people that the impossible is possible is a lie, telling people that zero is achievable is a lie. Such messages are the ultimate in fraudulence (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-fraudulence/). More so, self-deception and bad faith … [Read more...] about Zero is Founded on Deceit and Lies

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm

Have You Had a Drink of SafeTea?

September 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

October is apparently ‘safety month’, a great idea to generate tokenism compared to other months. This year I see the ‘SafeTea chat’ initiative. Sounds like a great idea for open conversations and trusting-listening, hmmm, not likely. Even the expression ‘WHS discussions’ is use but? None of this … [Read more...] about Have You Had a Drink of SafeTea?

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: SafeTea, safety month

The Blessings of Fallibility

September 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

  The human condition is unique, paradoxical and ‘wicked’. If you want to understand fallibility, human mortality and human personhood then read some of the following as be a helpful start. If you want to condemn fallibility as some kind of ‘curse’ or negative projection, then just … [Read more...] about The Blessings of Fallibility

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: fallibility

Safety as Zero, The Perfect Event

September 25, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

  Zero is an ideology of perfectionism. I wonder what happens at a ‘zero event’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-global-zero-event-this-is-safety/) if you make a mistake? We know from all the research that perfectionism is a mental health disorder … [Read more...] about Safety as Zero, The Perfect Event

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: duPont

Validating, Endorsing and Supporting Zero

September 25, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

It is so amusing watching organisations have a bet each way on zero. This is how one plays the religious ‘agnostic’ card to argue that zero is some kind of ‘global by-line’. This is the kind of religious language one uses to claim that zero is not religious. Such a strategy enables fraudulence to … [Read more...] about Validating, Endorsing and Supporting Zero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: zero sum

The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety

September 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

This is how Safety describes what it does. Here it is on full show. Come to Safety so you can have zero vision about risk. Do you want to count how many zero events safety has held recently. I guess a zero event means you had neither an event nor nothing to count? And anyone and … [Read more...] about The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: world congress

If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health

September 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

  As long as Safety is founded in the nonsense of injury rate counting and zero, it will never ever be able to tackle the challenges of psychosocial health. The fundamental problem for Safety is, it doesn’t know what to do with fallibility, mortality, vulnerability, corporeal being and … [Read more...] about If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: fallibility

Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk

September 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Well, what an amazing lot of fun and learning in SPoR over the past 4 days. We finished our fourth day yesterday bringing myth and embodiment together in tackling the realities of psychosocial risk.We started surveying the current approaches to psychosocial risk that are dis-embodied, looking at the … [Read more...] about Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: embodiment, psychosocial risk

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