Celebrating 1000 Blogs on Risk – Free Download SPoR Handbook
Who would have known in 2012 when I first started writing blogs that it would reach this milestone. This blog marks the 1000th blog on this most successful site on risk and safety and to celebrate we are releasing yet another free book: The Social Psychology of Risk Handbook
This now makes the seventh book for free download in the series on risk. This is also matched by many free videos, tools, ideas and practical methods to empower you to better enact the foundations of risk and safety.
All of the free resources and tools offered in SPoR including the free Introduction, (https://safetyrisk.net/free-online-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk/ ) are premised on the idea that there should be no impediment or financial constraint to enacting a better way to tackling risk. Indeed, promises of zero and making money out of such is simply fraudulent.
Risk and safety can only benefit from the critique, analysis, practical alternatives and constructive criticism of these blogs. Without such critique of risk and safety offered by these many blogs, safety will remain bogged down in compliance, mono-disciplinary self-flagellation and impoverished in learning.
So, celebrate with us and enjoy the SPoR Handbook as it documents the Curriculum and SPoR Body of Knowledge. You can also see the Curriculum here: https://cllr.com.au/elearning/ and you are more than welcome to take on such study if you are sick of the ineffectiveness and brutalism of Traditional safety.
Read all of Rob’s previous blogs here: https://safetyrisk.net/robert-long/
PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA
Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.
Thanks John. It’s easy when the industry gives you so much to discuss. If it was a profession and professional there would be little to talk about. When zero frames the ideology, one must persist.
What do you make of those with a doctorate in psychology, who do research in psychology, and still hang their hat on behaviorism? Do they, deep down, know better but see a way to make a lot of money, or do they really think behaviorism is the answer?
In a way those who don’t have a PhD, can’t understand a PhD, it has certain mystic and power associated to it, but ist not a certificate in critical thinking.
Brent, a PhD indicates that you are good at getting a PhD not necessarily that you are a critical thinker, especially depending on many other factors. After all, Joseph Goebbels had a PhD in Social Psychology and that enabled him to do an amazing job at Propaganda.
I don’t think that those in behavioural psych have such intent, its more about the scientism worldview and that is what behaviourism appeals to, its much more like science than psychology. Behaviourism offers the delusions of certainty, objectivity and control. Behaviourism is very mechanistic and really has very little in common with Social psych.
WE all get attracted to the worldview that appeals to us and suits our ontology/psychological orientation/personality etc.
Congratulations and Thanks, Rob. Appreciate your ruffling feathers, without that there would have been no unlearning and learning at my end. Thanks for making a difference!
Thanks Rob, not to dramatic to say you have changed my outlook on human endeavour and therefore Risk, wish the site had been around years ago. Whilst Brian has also commented many thanks to you both. ‘It Works.’ It certainly does for me.
Kind regards.
Andrew.
Thanks Andrew, been about for 20 years but don’t get on the airwaves of populism, academia and neither abide the associations and their love of zero. Those who want to learn and are sick of the brutalism of traditional safety do ask questions and eventually find SPoR. Like you, once the delusions of empty mantras and rituals are jettisoned and one experiences how SPoR works, you never can go back. and then its quite liberating to do things that work and humanise in what works.
Congratulations Rob great milestone and definitely a lot of great thinking in opposition to zero harm and safety is a choice we make. Kind Regards Brian
Thanks Brian. For those who are seeking a way out of traditional safety and wish to explore genuine difference, then SPoR gives that in spades as you have discovered. Such a journey is not easy, black or white and offers no silver bullets. As you know, it does offer a realistic and practical way to do safety without bells, whistles, slogans, mantras and endless rituals and paperwork that don’t work. The real joy is watching an organisation like yours dispense with the delusions of zero and adopt a person-centered approach to tackling risk.
John Culvenor says
Rob, you are a machine. A consistent and seemingly tireless performer. The p in phd is for persistence.
Admin says
Havent heard from you in ages John – hope all is well?
Rob Long says
Thanks John. It’s easy when the industry gives you so much to discuss. If it was a profession and professional there would be little to talk about. When zero frames the ideology, one must persist.
Brent R Charlton says
What do you make of those with a doctorate in psychology, who do research in psychology, and still hang their hat on behaviorism? Do they, deep down, know better but see a way to make a lot of money, or do they really think behaviorism is the answer?
Admin says
Hah – I’ve wondered the same thing about that same person
Rob Long says
In a way those who don’t have a PhD, can’t understand a PhD, it has certain mystic and power associated to it, but ist not a certificate in critical thinking.
Rob Long says
Brent, a PhD indicates that you are good at getting a PhD not necessarily that you are a critical thinker, especially depending on many other factors. After all, Joseph Goebbels had a PhD in Social Psychology and that enabled him to do an amazing job at Propaganda.
I don’t think that those in behavioural psych have such intent, its more about the scientism worldview and that is what behaviourism appeals to, its much more like science than psychology. Behaviourism offers the delusions of certainty, objectivity and control. Behaviourism is very mechanistic and really has very little in common with Social psych.
WE all get attracted to the worldview that appeals to us and suits our ontology/psychological orientation/personality etc.
John Wettstein says
Congratulations and Thanks, Rob. Appreciate your ruffling feathers, without that there would have been no unlearning and learning at my end. Thanks for making a difference!
Rob Long says
Hi John, best wishes to you in far away Canada, I remember fondly the training we did together.
Andrew Floyd says
Thanks Rob, not to dramatic to say you have changed my outlook on human endeavour and therefore Risk, wish the site had been around years ago. Whilst Brian has also commented many thanks to you both. ‘It Works.’ It certainly does for me.
Kind regards.
Andrew.
Rob Long says
Thanks Andrew, been about for 20 years but don’t get on the airwaves of populism, academia and neither abide the associations and their love of zero. Those who want to learn and are sick of the brutalism of traditional safety do ask questions and eventually find SPoR. Like you, once the delusions of empty mantras and rituals are jettisoned and one experiences how SPoR works, you never can go back. and then its quite liberating to do things that work and humanise in what works.
Brian Darlington says
Congratulations Rob great milestone and definitely a lot of great thinking in opposition to zero harm and safety is a choice we make. Kind Regards Brian
Rob Long says
Thanks Brian. For those who are seeking a way out of traditional safety and wish to explore genuine difference, then SPoR gives that in spades as you have discovered. Such a journey is not easy, black or white and offers no silver bullets. As you know, it does offer a realistic and practical way to do safety without bells, whistles, slogans, mantras and endless rituals and paperwork that don’t work. The real joy is watching an organisation like yours dispense with the delusions of zero and adopt a person-centered approach to tackling risk.