Asking Better Questions in Risk I have written before about questioning skills: https://safetyrisk.net/questioning-skills-and-investigations/ … [Read more...] about Asking Better Questions in Risk
Communication and Consultation
The Art of Active Listening in Risk
The Art of Active Listening in Risk I have written before about the importance of listening over telling in risk: https://safetyrisk.net/listening-to-the-symbols-of-christmas/ … [Read more...] about The Art of Active Listening in Risk
Numbed by Spin, Desensitized to Risk
Numbed by Spin, Desensitized to Risk So much of what circulates across safety is little more than spin or propaganda. The best way to interrogate such discourse is by Critical Discourse Analysis … [Read more...] about Numbed by Spin, Desensitized to Risk
Meeting in Safety With NO ‘Meeting’
Meeting in Safety With NO ‘Meeting’ In the work of Martin Buber we understand the difference between meeting and Meeting, between presence and Presence. What Buber refers to here is the relational … [Read more...] about Meeting in Safety With NO ‘Meeting’
Deciphering Safety Code
Deciphering Safety Code Unfortunately, language in safety is rarely defined so in order to help decipher meaning, the following codes should to be applied: Lean means obese Learning means … [Read more...] about Deciphering Safety Code
Discourse Analysis, Safety Alerts and Safety Boards
Discourse Analysis, Safety Alerts and Safety Boards There’s nothing quite like the tokenistic display of a safety alert. Go into any organization and see what’s on the safety notice board, observe … [Read more...] about Discourse Analysis, Safety Alerts and Safety Boards
Conversation about Safety Conversations
Conversation about Safety Conversations Today's drop with Dave Whitefield from Semiosphere and Andrew Thornhill from Clarity Enabled is a Conversation about Safety Conversations. What is a … [Read more...] about Conversation about Safety Conversations
Congruence in Messaging in Safety
Congruence in Messaging in Safety Study in Semiotics demonstrates that congruence in messaging improves communication, incongruence creates miss-messaging. In order for communication to be effective … [Read more...] about Congruence in Messaging in Safety
Conversational iCue
Conversational iCue The past 20 years the most successful program for the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) has been the Safety Conversations program. It doesn’t matter where I go in safety this shows … [Read more...] about Conversational iCue
How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk?
How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk? One of the reasons why Safety is so obsessed with: paperwork, systems and audits, is that it is so poor at conversation. In the Social Psychology of … [Read more...] about How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk?
