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Communicating Professionally in Risk

April 1, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The foundations of communicating and messaging is: framing, priming, pitching, anchoring, reframing and suspending agenda. We learn this in many SPoR programs as a foundation for understanding communication and influencing effectiveness. We use a simple tool shown at Figure 1. Language … [Read more...] about Communicating Professionally in Risk

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: language of influence

How NOT to be Professional in Safety

March 30, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Imagine going to your parent teacher evening and sitting down to discuss your child’s progress at the school and professional teacher describes your child’s challenges in school as a ‘hazard’. Imagine your child is having issues with bullying and is upset about it and approaches a teacher who … [Read more...] about How NOT to be Professional in Safety

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: hazard, iso 45003

How to Leave the Safety Industry

January 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Related Post: I'm Just Not That Into Safety Anymore I regularly get contacts from people who want to leave the safety industry and don’t know how. Most often these people enter the industry with a passion for care and helping others. They often have a passion for learning. It doesn’t take long … [Read more...] about How to Leave the Safety Industry

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter of Ethics, checklists

Three Lessons in How to be Unprofessional

September 29, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Three Lessons in How to be Unprofessional One of the critical skills of professionalism is Discourse Analysis.  It is through Discourse Analysis that we understand the power in messages revealing: ethic, politick and motive. Discourse Analysis is also foundational to Social Psychology. You … [Read more...] about Three Lessons in How to be Unprofessional

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: ASSP, discourse, discourse analysis, safety professional

You Can Put Safety Into Engineering but, You Can’t Get Engineering Out of Safety

September 28, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

‘A person cannot possibly seek what he knows, and, just as impossibly, he cannot seek what he does not know, for what he knows he cannot seek, since he knows it, and what he does not know he cannot seek, because, after all, he does not even know what is supposed to seek.’ (Kierkegaard, 1844). If … [Read more...] about You Can Put Safety Into Engineering but, You Can’t Get Engineering Out of Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: ASSP, engineering

The Safety Professional Myth

September 8, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Continuing our series on Safety Myths – see them all here I was sent this image recently and it says it all about the myth of the safety professional (see Figure 1. SP Myth) Figure 1. SP Myth As we have been asserting in this series on myths: all symbols that embed ideology are mythical. The … [Read more...] about The Safety Professional Myth

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Not a Profession’s Bootlace

August 1, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

How easy to let that word ‘professional’ roll off your tongue, when you are not in a profession! How easy to brand something that it is not and then wonder why people walk away in droves (icare-workers-compensation-insider-speaks-out). How easy to spruik zero harm when it’s the opposite … [Read more...] about Not a Profession’s Bootlace

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: AIHS BoK, SPoR

80% of Safety Practitioners Are Idiots

July 28, 2022 by Phil LaDuke 30 Comments

80% of Safety Practitioners Are Idiots by Phil La Duke. First published here: https://philladuke.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/80-of-safety-practitioners-are-idiots/  Startling title; nasty, mean, condescending and just plain unfair.  It’s not right, it’s not fair,  it’s not just.  So how does it feel? … [Read more...] about 80% of Safety Practitioners Are Idiots

Filed Under: Phil LaDuke, Safety Professional Tagged With: safety professionals

Dumb Down Safety on Full Show in Fake HSE UK Poster

July 18, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Nothing surprises me in the world of dumb down safety like a cheap poster of misinformation, disinformation, sexism and condescension. This poster  was passed to me this week doing the rounds on Linkedin. I got off ‘Dumbedin’ years ago. The poster is a mock up of the official HSE UK poster … [Read more...] about Dumb Down Safety on Full Show in Fake HSE UK Poster

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: HSE Poster

‘Professional’ Challenges for the Risk ‘Industry’

September 4, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

‘Professional’ Challenges for the Safety ‘Industry’ Download the full paper, including references: Professional Challenges for the Safety Industry  by Dr Robert Long Introduction I have been in conversation with large organizations/businesses recently that are in the process of changing the nature … [Read more...] about ‘Professional’ Challenges for the Risk ‘Industry’

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Safety Professional Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, safety archetype, safety professional

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