Just because one desires zero injuries doesn’t justify unethical practice. The outcome of safety and a duty towards safety are always undone when persons are dehumanised (harmed) in the process. How absurd the proposal for zero harm when people are harmed in the process of seeking zero!!! The … [Read more...] about The Ethics of Surveillance and Safety
Risky Conversations – Free Audiobook
We have relaunched the free audiobook of Risky Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology of Risk. You can download the free Risky Conversations Audiobook here: https://www.humandymensions.com/product/risky-conversations-audio-book/ Overview Be very afraid, the Regulator is out to get you! … [Read more...] about Risky Conversations – Free Audiobook
First Audiobook – Risk Makes Sense
UPDATE: NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: https://safetyrisk.net/free-download-audiobook-risk-makes-sense/ Good news for those who have been asking for our books as Audiobooks. We have now launched our first audiobook: Risk Makes Sense, Human Judgement and Risk. You can download it here: … [Read more...] about First Audiobook – Risk Makes Sense
Situational Awareness. What Are Your Filters?
We see the world and situations through the many biases (filters) developed through years of the way the world has been framed at us. In safety, the training, curriculum, discourse, language and semiosis is framed through the filter and lens of objects. Even psychosocial harm is called a ’hazard’. … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness. What Are Your Filters?
The Dangers of AI for Safety
I don’t use AI and never have and, have no intention of doing so. We’ve done two video on the dangers of AI for safety here: https://safetyrisk.net/is-ai-safe-two-videos/ And, have written on the ethics of using AI in safety here: https://safetyrisk.net/ai-ethics-and-ai-safety/ My last … [Read more...] about The Dangers of AI for Safety
Situational Awareness as Consciousness of the Unconscious
Situational awareness is in some ways about ‘reading’ and ‘sensing’ the unknown but how can that make sense? Isn’t that a paradox? Yes, it is but in SPoR many things are held in paradoxical tension. Such is life. Situational awareness is about a ‘sixth sense’ of knowing well beyond any thinking … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness as Consciousness of the Unconscious
Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour
Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour Artists, marketers and advertisers (https://www.helpscout.net/blog/psychology-of-color/ ), fashion designers, graphic and instructional designers, supermarkets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9UPy04WMs ), therapists … [Read more...] about Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour
The Learning Moment in Safety
The idea of learning is a paradox. How do humans come to learn something they do not know? What happens in that Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky) when a person moves from the unknown to the known. How can you know something that you don’t know? Why do people drop something they thought they … [Read more...] about The Learning Moment in Safety
Heinrich’s Alternate Reality
Amongst all the concoctions of Heinrich the most amusing is his denial of reality. You can read Heinrich for yourself here: … [Read more...] about Heinrich’s Alternate Reality
Heinrich Humbug
I guess one of the reasons why Heinrich continues to dominate safety texts is because few have read his work. If you want, you can download his text here: INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT PREVENTION Another reason is that his concocted ratios, dominoes and pyramids suit the biases of safety indoctrination. … [Read more...] about Heinrich Humbug