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Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious

May 21, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious An essential in understanding culture is understanding shared consciousness and shared unconsciousness. The work of Jung charted the frontier in … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Unconscious Tagged With: Archetypes, collective unconscious, memes

Sleep Dysfunction, Dreaming and Safety

May 12, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Sleep Dysfunction, Dreaming and Safety There are many common themes we find in music and song, many about love and the soul, and many about dreaming. The Beatles sang about sleep and dreaming on one … [Read more...] about Sleep Dysfunction, Dreaming and Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Unconscious Tagged With: dreaming, Sleep

Practice, Repetition, Habit, Routine, Ritual and Decision Making in Risk

October 23, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Practice, Repetition, Habit, Routine, Ritual and Decision Making in Risk Most decisions made by people are unconscious. The idea that decision making is brain activity between individuals is simply … [Read more...] about Practice, Repetition, Habit, Routine, Ritual and Decision Making in Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviourism, heuristics, practice, unconscious

Unconscious Codes, Ecological Thinking in Risk

November 20, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Biosemiotics is the idea that life is based on semiosis, i.e., on signs, symbols and codes. Biosemiotics is the study of signs in living systems. In ecological life there is a ’thinking’ dynamic or … [Read more...] about Unconscious Codes, Ecological Thinking in Risk

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Semiotics, Unconscious Tagged With: arational, Biosemiotics, SEEK, transdisciplinarity

The Rational, aRational and Irrational in Safety

November 11, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

Safety seems to avoid the most important things when thinking about tackling risk. There seems to be no interest in safety in the nature of the human unconscious nor any interest in anything outside … [Read more...] about The Rational, aRational and Irrational in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: AIHS BoK, arational, rational, unconscious

How Workers Really Make Decisions

October 25, 2020 by Admin Leave a Comment

How Workers Really Make Decisions Latest video by Dr Rob Long as a follow up to his previous article: How Do Workers Make Decisions? Video Transcript (video below this): I’m asked many, many times … [Read more...] about How Workers Really Make Decisions

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviourism, complacency, decisions, mind

How Do Workers Make Decisions?

October 23, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

How Do Workers Make Decisions? This is the question on the tongue of Safety but has no idea of an answer. I saw a video recently about ‘predicting behaviour in safety’. This was a slick piece of … [Read more...] about How Do Workers Make Decisions?

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: AIHS BoK on Ethics, behaviourist, collective unconscious, decisions, human error

Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk

October 15, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk Such a small amount of what we ‘see’ is processed through the eyes and brain indeed, this amounts to less than 5% of all ways in which we sense the … [Read more...] about Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviourism, brain, inductions, positivism

Daydreaming and Safety

September 10, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Daydreaming and Safety I can remember when the song Daydream was released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlCtPh25jk), I was 13 years of age and the music of the time was astounding even … [Read more...] about Daydreaming and Safety

Filed Under: Psychological Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviorism, daydreaming, neuroscience, semiconsciousness, unconscious

Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered

November 26, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

  ‘A social and community psychology of resilience is needed if we are to understand why many of us are not always able to preserve well-being and sustain our progress toward the goals we have … [Read more...] about Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered

Filed Under: Resilience, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: resilience engineering, transdisciplinary approach

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