You have to hand it to Safety, no greater industry for entertainment, mythology, gobbledygook and cleaning up bank accounts. All you need to do is: create more regulation and legislation that no one understands, a curriculum that convinces people they are lawyers and police, create a monopoly of … [Read more...] about Entertainment, Suckers and Making Money From Safety
Breaking the Safety Code
What is the Safety code? Safety code is the in-group code to sell products. Once in-group-demand is assured then buying silver bullets seems a positive economic outcome, in the name of safety. I see recently the chance to learn about safety ‘code breaking’ but not the in-group code but rather the … [Read more...] about Breaking the Safety Code
The Futility of the Centralised Safety Management System?
Whenever I run the MiProfile diagnostic (https://www.humandymensions.com/services-and-programs/miprofile/) in organizations it always turns out that over 60% of people state that they do not understand the Safety Management System (SMS). With data from over 300 organizations and 60,000 participants … [Read more...] about The Futility of the Centralised Safety Management System?
Liking and Not Liking in Safety, A Tale of In-Group and Out-Groupness
One of the foundations in the development of Social Psychology was the study of the Nazis and in-group and out-groupness. Most Histories of Social Psychology trace its roots back to Kurt Lewin. Lewin (a Jew) like many of the founders of Social Psychology like Milgram, Zimbardo etc. simply … [Read more...] about Liking and Not Liking in Safety, A Tale of In-Group and Out-Groupness
Risk iCue Video Two – Demonstration
This video is a follow up from the previous overview regarding the Risk iCue Method (https://safetyrisk.net/risk-icue-video/ ). Risk iCue, iCue Listening and iCue Engagement are all ways of describing the method of undertaking a risk evaluation by visual, verbal and relational mapping. Most … [Read more...] about Risk iCue Video Two – Demonstration
Radical Uncertainty
Radical Uncertainty I’m not an economist but we have much we can learn from other disciplines. Kay and King’s book Radical Uncertainty (2020) should be a compulsory read for safety people. Moreso, for anyone spruiking the nonsense of zero. Kay and King have produced an easy to read book on the … [Read more...] about Radical Uncertainty
The Safety Love Affair with AI
Hot on the heels of the SPoR March Newsletter (https://safetyrisk.net/cllr-newsletter-march-2023/) on The Data Ethic of Power we get more about the Safety love affair with AI (https://www.nscafoundation.org.au/national-safety-magazine/). And you don’t have to dig deep to find the gems like Figure … [Read more...] about The Safety Love Affair with AI
Safety is not a Person, Safety as an Archetype
Understanding Archetypes is critical for an understanding of SPoR. An Archetype is not a person nor about persons in a group or industry. An Archetype refers to the power and energy of a thing and how it acts as a persona. An Archetype has characteristics as a persona, what one might also attribute … [Read more...] about Safety is not a Person, Safety as an Archetype
Duty of Care is NOT Duty to Care (for persons)
The darling of Psychosocial ‘hazards’ is ‘duty of care’. It is important to understand that duty of care’ is not about care or caring. Duty of care does not mean duty to care (for persons). The change in preposition is so slight but make all the difference. Similarly, the deletion of the word … [Read more...] about Duty of Care is NOT Duty to Care (for persons)
Safety, Ethics, SPoR and How to Foster the Abuse of Power
There seems this strange belief in the industry of safety, that any action can be justified if the intent, passion and outcome is safety. As long as the outcome is zero, any action is OK. This belief comes from a long tradition in engineering and behaviourism that commits the industry of safety … [Read more...] about Safety, Ethics, SPoR and How to Foster the Abuse of Power
