How Can the Ideology of Zero be Ethical? One of the strangest justifications for zero ideology is that there is no other ethical goal. The only way such thinking can make sense is if one accepts the binary assumptions of the zero black and white mindset. The either-or mindset justifies a discourse … [Read more...] about How Can the Ideology of Zero be Ethical?
Suggested Safety Reading for 2018
Suggested Safety Reading for 2018 The best way to broaden your body of knowledge in safety is to read beyond the safety/risk genre even moreso from beyond the STEM-only approach to knowledge common to the SIA BoK and other Bodies of Knowledge like the SRMBoK. These days if a text has the words … [Read more...] about Suggested Safety Reading for 2018
Safety as Policing
Safety as Policing One of the principle factors recognized by the World Congress on Safety 2017 was the problem of ‘safety as policing’. The Congress recognized that the strategy of ‘policing’ doesn’t work and is ineffective (p.10). It states: ‘The OHS Professional’s role should be … [Read more...] about Safety as Policing
The Mossie Coil and Safety
The Mossie Coil and Safety The concept of by-products and trade-offs ought to be mandatory in any safety training. The naïve idea that policy decisions and safety decisions are neutral is nonsense. As humans live as social beings there can be no decision in risk that is made without implications, … [Read more...] about The Mossie Coil and Safety
Who Gives a Toss?
Who Gives a Toss? The current cricket test is between Australia and England and they play for ‘the ashes’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes). I guess people in Europe, USA and non-English parts of the world would find it hard to believe that two teams can play a game that goes for 5 days and … [Read more...] about Who Gives a Toss?
The Great Safety is a Choice Delusion
The Great Safety is a Choice Delusion The simplistic worldview about choice plagues the safety industry into the nonsense slogan ‘safety is a choice you make’. The delusion centres around an inability to consider the complexity of life and the many things one has no choice about. The only way one … [Read more...] about The Great Safety is a Choice Delusion
Zero Accident Vision Non-Sense
Zero Accident Vision Non-Sense You won’t read much more propagandist non-sense than this article about Zero Accident Vision . If one applies any skill of critical thinking (which of course safety doesn’t study) to this article one will see it as nothing more than propaganda … [Read more...] about Zero Accident Vision Non-Sense
The Idealization of Humans and The Zero Delusion
The Idealization of Humans and The Zero Delusion The emergence of the Harvey Weinstein affair draws out the problem of idealization and the delusion of perfection. We all know that as children we believe our parents are perfect until we mature and grow up. We witness all the time the destructive … [Read more...] about The Idealization of Humans and The Zero Delusion
Have Cake and Eat it Too
Have Cake and Eat it Too One of the fascinating outcomes of the Zero Vision Global Safety Congress was The Occupational Health and Safety Professional Capability Framework, A Global Framework for Practice . What is most interesting is to read the use of language in this document. The purpose of the … [Read more...] about Have Cake and Eat it Too
The Iconography of Safety
The Iconography of Safety Icons are powerful modes of communication and predate text and print. Danesi in The Semiotics of Emoji demonstrates that we are seeing a re-emergence of the power of icons in everyday communications. Indeed - SMS, emoticons, emojis and graphics/multimedia are changing the … [Read more...] about The Iconography of Safety