The foundational tool in SPoR for tackling risk is the Risk iCue method. Risk iCue method is a graphical, relational, verbal and visual way of understanding risk. The method requires significant level of training in open questioning, listening and reflection. This is the first video in a series … [Read more...] about Risk iCue Video
Rethinking Leadership in Risk
Rethinking Leadership in Risk It is easy to put up a blog or tweet and just about say anything as if any ‘noise’ and enthusiasm are helpful. Somewhere along the line there needs to be a balance of listening, respect and conversation between the amateur and expert view or the alienation will … [Read more...] about Rethinking Leadership in Risk
Gesture and Symbol in Safety, the Force of Culture
We know in the study of culture, that culture cannot be conceptualised or learned propositionally. This is why Safety is so happy to declare culture non-understandable, ‘cloudy’ and confusing (eg. Hopkins, Busch etc.). Just don’t talk about it. When you take an engineering and behaviourist lens … [Read more...] about Gesture and Symbol in Safety, the Force of Culture
Human Factors is Never About Humans
Human Factors is Never About Humans The first rule in reading safety is to understand that words essentially don’t have meaning. Zero never means zero, different doesn’t mean different and ‘human factors’ doesn’t have anything to do with humans. Most of the time when Safety uses words you can rely … [Read more...] about Human Factors is Never About Humans
Celebrating 60 Years of Lifeline
It was an absolute pleasure to participate in celebrations of Lifeline on its 60th birthday celebrations (https://60years.lifeline.org.au/) this week. The wonderful thing about Lifeline is that they save lives but don’t brag about ‘saving lives’. The last thing one ever needs in the work of mental … [Read more...] about Celebrating 60 Years of Lifeline
Entertainment, Suckers and Making Money From Safety
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
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
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