‘Ethical Responsibility’ in Safety, You’re on Your Own Baby! It’s interesting to read in safety the casual use of the terms ‘ethical responsibility’ and ‘essence of ethics’ as marketed by the AIHS as: ‘The Essence of Ethics’ objective is to develop the basic personal ethical capability of AIHS members and certified OHS professionals and practitioners […]
Ethics
An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety
An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety We saw this week an ex-Prime Minister of Australia (Tony Abbott) caught on camera at a public beach without a mask . He was fined $500 for breaking the law. Abbott then came out in the media and stated that: The law is interpreted and was wrong and That […]
200,000 SPoR Book Downloads
200,000 SPoR Book Downloads We’ve had a few milestones lately, first with the 1000th blog (https://safetyrisk.net/celebrating-1000-blogs-on-risk/ ) and now with over 200,000 book sales/downloads of Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). This is in addition to over 100,000 video downloads (https://vimeo.com/humandymensions ). The most popular video download of all time is on Paperwork (https://vimeo.com/162034157 ). No […]
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 […]
Do Persons and Systems ‘Drift’ into Failure?
Do Persons and Systems ‘Drift’ into Failure? The identity of personhood as defined by fallibility (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/fallibility-risk-living-uncertainty/ ) should be foundational to any ethic of risk. The vulnerability and mortality of being human ought to determine what one defines as success or failure. Any language of perfectionism should be rejected by an ethic of risk as […]
