Distraction Attraction In Safety

It seems every time Safety comes up with another fad it demonstrates its preoccupation with avoidance. The last thing Safety wants to engage in is, tackling the real challenges of risk. The last thing Safety wants to talk about is persons and decision making. This is the attraction of distractions.

We see this in the latest Safety fixation on energies. Can someone please tell me how an energy makes a decision to hurt a person?

Why this fixation on objects not subjects?

We know why. Because objects are easy and measurable. Subjects(persons) are complex, unpredictable and require a sophisticated, mature understanding of the human unconscious.

• When offered a new method to tackle the challenges of risk, Safety wants a collection of slogans.
• When offered a better way of tackling risk, safety wants a ‘new view’.
• When faced with the challenges of psychosocial risk, Safety looks at ‘hazards’.
• When faced with the challenge of what counts, Safety only looks at what can be counted.
• When faced with the nature of auto-pilot in decision making, Safety wants to look at energies.
• When we know social relationships are the foundation of well-being in work, Safety wants to engage in ‘factors’.
• When faced with the ecology of human Mind, Safety looks at systems.
• When the fallible human person comes into view, Safety wants performance.
• When persons seek resilience, Safety wants engineering.

It seems whenever Safety is faced with a challenge, the last thing it wants to explore is the ethical/moral dilemma of personhood.

When you present the evidence for what Safety does, Safety attacks the messenger and defends its political territory. Just try to get rid of zero from an organisation and find out what happens.

But chase the dollars. In Safety, the dollars are made in distraction. When counting injury rates and multiplying systems fail, Safety just creates more of the same disguised in a few slogans. What changes in method? Nothing.

Without movement in methodology, there can be no movement in method.

Know what energies are, doesn’t change method. Looking at the same thing differently, doesn’t change method.

If you are interested in a different methodology and method to tackle risk, you can write here: admin@spor.com.au

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Prof. Robert Long

Expert in Social Psychology, Principal & Trainer at Human Dymensions

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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.