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Psychosocial Safety, Following-Leading in Risk

February 4, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

We released the book Following-Leading in Risk, A Humanising Dynamic in 2014. For free download here: https://www.humandymensions.com/product/following-leading-risk/ The book provides many positive and practical tools and guides for how to approach Psychosocial Safety in the workplace. The … [Read more...] about Psychosocial Safety, Following-Leading in Risk

Filed Under: Ethics, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter of Ethics, Following-Leading in Risk

Free Program on Due Diligence

February 4, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

We have decided to release for free the successful Due Diligence program. Due Diligence https://vimeo.com/showcase/4883640 This video series is the record of the Due Diligence Program conducted by Greg Smith and Dr Long - https://cllr.com.au/product/due-diligence-workshop-unit-13/ This … [Read more...] about Free Program on Due Diligence

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Ethics, Free Safety Stuff, Robert Long Tagged With: safety training

Ratio Delusions and Heinrich’s Hoax

January 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Ratio Delusions and Heinrich’s Hoax There’s no doubt that founding interests in safety emerged from insurance and engineering. The concocted rubbish of Heinrich in 1931 was founded in mechanistic assumptions of apportioning blame and responsibility for compensation. It is from this foundation that … [Read more...] about Ratio Delusions and Heinrich’s Hoax

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: heinrich, Heinrich’s triangle

The Moral Harm of the Zero Cult

December 24, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Whenever we hear the slogan of ‘zero harm’, we know that it is selective. There is never any discussion in the zero-harm cult about ‘moral harm’ or ‘psychological harm’. Out of sight out of Mind. Whenever Safety focuses on the silly idea that the presence of injury represents safety … [Read more...] about The Moral Harm of the Zero Cult

Filed Under: Ethics, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: mental health, moral harm, Psychological Safety

Safety Gives Me the Right to ‘Over-Ride’ Your Rite

December 22, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the most offensive and unethical signals on culture used by Hopkins and Cooper in their chapters in the book Safety Cultures, Safety Models is the language of ‘over-ride’. This is the kind of stuff Safety delights in when it has no ethic of risk. Both authors suggest a desirability to … [Read more...] about Safety Gives Me the Right to ‘Over-Ride’ Your Rite

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: rituals

Tackling Ethics in Risk, A Philosophical Challenge

November 11, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

One of the reasons Safety does so poorly in understanding Ethics is because by nature, Ethics is a philosophical discipline. Philosophy is a discipline one benefits in learning through a Transdisciplinary approach to critical thinking  https://safetyrisk.net/transdisciplinary-safety/  … [Read more...] about Tackling Ethics in Risk, A Philosophical Challenge

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: ethics in risk

Injury Rates Are Up, You’re Sacked

October 21, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Injury Rates Are Up, You’re Sacked One of the perpetually grand delusions of Safety is that injury rates define safety. I have known some amazing, skilled, caring and helping people in safety over the last few years and all have left the industry. Most were sacked because injury rates went up. One … [Read more...] about Injury Rates Are Up, You’re Sacked

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Statistics Tagged With: AIHS BoK, injury rates

Essentials in Ethics for Safety

September 16, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One day when safety understands that a mature approach to ethics is essential for being professional, it might hopefully tackle the essentials in ethical and moral thinking. Unfortunately, documents like the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics are so glaringly inadequate it is laughable. It is also clear … [Read more...] about Essentials in Ethics for Safety

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: culture, linguistics, politics, power, socialitie

What Does Safety Know About Ethics?

September 14, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The brief answer to this question is, not much. A mature study of Ethics is found nowhere in the safety curriculum across the globe. The idea of ethics comes from the root meaning (ethike): character, moral nature, guiding beliefs of a person, group or institution. It was originally used by … [Read more...] about What Does Safety Know About Ethics?

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, corrie pitzer

Culture Silences in Safety – Care Ethics

September 13, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Culture Silences in Safety – Care Ethics One of the strange contradictions of the safety industry is its preoccupation with ‘behaviours’ yet silence on care ethics. Indeed, the fixation on ‘what we do around here’ helps mask silence on ethics as foundational to culture. The last things Safety wants … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Care Ethics

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: care ethics

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