STEP 1, Suspend Your Agenda There are 3 critical impediments to reviewing events and incidents: Carrying an agenda into the interview (suspend your agenda, bias awareness) Thinking of what to say next (which means you are not listening) and, Following a set process or form. Each of … [Read more...] about STEP 1, Suspend Your Agenda
What Can Safety Learn from Pastoral Care?
What Can Safety Learn from Pastoral Care? The Beaconsfield Mine Collapse (https://safetyrisk.net/the-beaconsfield-leadership-workshop/) traumatised many in the mining community, not just those who worked at the Mine. For some in the Mine who had experienced similar events on the West Coast of … [Read more...] about What Can Safety Learn from Pastoral Care?
Investigating Events is NOT About ‘Brain Farts’
Investigating Events is NOT About ‘Brain Farts’ In Australia, we have this saying to try to explain why someone does something that doesn’t make sense, we call it a ‘brain fart’. It is a way of people accepting that someone did something that didn’t make rational sense and was out of the ordinary. … [Read more...] about Investigating Events is NOT About ‘Brain Farts’
Competition – Crazy Safety Campaigns
Competition - Crazy Safety Campaigns If you are a follower of this blog you will know that we have often discussed the way safety and marketing go for crazy promotions to get people into safety. In the past we have discussed: Dumb Ways to Die, Hazardman, Sexy Sophie, Mum’s For Safety, Pickled, … [Read more...] about Competition – Crazy Safety Campaigns
The Dangers of Common Sense Language in Safety
The Dangers of Common Sense Language in Safety I have written previously as far back as 2015 about the dangers of common sense language: https://safetyrisk.net/non-common-sense-mythology/ https://safetyrisk.net/the-common-sense-fallacy/ … [Read more...] about The Dangers of Common Sense Language in Safety
The Social Psychology of Distance-Safety
The Social Psychology of Distance-Safety Or, Keeping in Touch Without ‘Touching’ There is nothing more important for human well-being than touch. Touch like gesture, is the foundational way of human knowing. Children learn how to communicate emotions and feelings by gesture and touch well before … [Read more...] about The Social Psychology of Distance-Safety
FIGJAM Safety
FIGJAM Safety I get one of these silly dumb memes in my inbox each week. Yet on going evidence of the unprofessional dumb nature of Safety. Nothing is more dangerous to safety than the arrogance, cockiness, false consciousness … [Read more...] about FIGJAM Safety
The Shaping of SPoR Intelligence, Skills and Competence in Risk
The Shaping of SPoR Intelligence, Skills and Competence in Risk The next free module in SPoR will be run in September, you can register your interest here: https://safetyrisk.net/free-online-module-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk/ You can’t access knowledge you don’t have and neither … [Read more...] about The Shaping of SPoR Intelligence, Skills and Competence in Risk
When There is no Fix?
When There is no Fix? One of the favourite words of the safety sector is ‘controls’. Hazards and controls, that’s the scope of safety. However, the moment one engages in an ethic of risk one learns that life and being are not that simple. There is no objective, neutral notion of risk without … [Read more...] about When There is no Fix?
Investigations and the Causality Sausage
Investigations and the Causality Sausage The topic of bias and worldview is rarely discussed as a foundation for incident investigations indeed, if you read the AIHS BoK Chapter of Ethics (https://safetyrisk.net/what-brand-of-ethics-is-safety/ ) or chapter on Causality … [Read more...] about Investigations and the Causality Sausage