What is Critical Thinking in Safety? Everyone thinks but not all think critically…. There are countless books out there on supposed ‘critical thinking skills’ but many are not about critical thinking. Many of these books don’t even define critical thinking well. Let’s take for example Cottrell, S., (2005) Critical Thinking Skills, Developing Effective Analysis and […]
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The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget
The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget Image Source One of the favourite activities of Safety is downloading and sharing templates. This is promoted by the idea that paperwork is an end in itself. Once the paperwork is completed in comes ‘set and forget’, nothing to worry about except the next version updates! One of […]
Who Leads the Way in Safety?
Who Leads the Way in Safety? One’s ethos is a vocational methodology, one’s driving meaning and purpose in being. It is from one’s ethos that we develop a method or ethic. An ethic is essentially the systematic construct of what one believes about life, being and personhood. For example: If one believes humans are simply […]
The Deficit Focus and Safety Balance
The Deficit Focus and Safety Balance So much of the activity of safety has a focus on the deficit nature of loss. Safety, by its very remit counts the number of times things are unsafe, when things go wrong. Rather than take a focus on the abundances of fallibility, the wealth of goodness in vulnerability, […]
‘Professional’ Challenges for the Risk ‘Industry’
‘Professional’ Challenges for the Risk ‘Industry’ Download the full paper, including references: by Dr Robert Long Introduction I have been in conversation with large organizations/businesses recently that are in the process of changing the nature of safety positions. This is not something I initiated but something for which they wished to consult. What they are […]
