And the Dirty Word is – Fallibility! Every time I drive past one of these signs I just wonder what kind of mental gymnastics people (usually GMs and CEOs) have to tolerate when they tackle the realities of morality and fallibility. The psychosis of denial is mind blowing. Here we have a sign and related […]
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Sticks and Stones and the Nonsense of Zero Harm
Sticks and Stones and the Nonsense of Zero Harm When we were kids we were taught the rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_and_Stones ). This mantra is such a silly childish semiotic that totally ignores the nature of how language affects the mind. The truth is, […]
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How to Calculate TRIFR, LTIFR and Other Health and Safety Indicators
One thing normalized in the culture of safety is the delusional idea that ‘attributed’ measures like LTIFR actually have meaning
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Mental Health, Risk and Safety – Part 2
Mental Health, Risk and Safety – Part 2 Part 2 of one of the most popular articles we have ever published, by Dr Rob Long from Human Dymensions. and author of the book “Real Risk” In the previous blog (Mental Health, Risk and Safety Part 1) I discussed the invisibility of mental health in risk […]
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Don’t Let Evidence Get in the Way of Safety
Don’t Let Evidence Get in the Way of Safety When it comes to faith-belief, evidence rarely works. This is the primary discovery of Festinger et. al. in their study of Cognitive Dissonance. You can download When Prophecy Fails here The idea that people will make a ‘paradigm shift’ (Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) […]
