Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Thanks to Roy Heatley for sending this one in. Roy says: I have attached a safety Hazard reporting spreadsheet if you would like to place it on your site for others to use. I Have struggled in the past trying to find some worksheets so I now makeup my own. He is also working on a LTIFR spread sheet which we will post here soon.
How Groupthink Works In light of the binary discourse that is floating about my last blog, Like A Collective Brain Snap, this may serve as a follow up. People often scratch their heads wondering why people do things and in exasperation and dismissal come up with the traditional stupidity/idiot causation scenario. This kind of binary […]
Until Nothing Changes in Safety The industry of safety becomes more and more fixed in its current trajectory through its linguistic practices, semiotic meanings and social reproduction. What does this mean? Humans are the sum of their social relationships and the language that is used to communicate identity. Safety articulates itself through a discourse of […]
Vision Can’t Come from Safety Compliance One of the spin offs, trade-offs and by-products of Vision Zero is a lack of vision. The idea of vision comes from more than just seeing something but rather seeing beyond something. I will be writing about this in my next book Envisioning Risk, Signs and Symbols in Risk. […]
IN THIS ISSUE This is our second Newsletter for 2018, and we again welcome new subscribers, many of who join us after purchasing Social Sensemaking. In this edition we share news of upcoming programs, including two in Auckland New Zealand, along with our usual news items including blogs, articles, books, a theme of the month […]
By What Method? One of the strange beliefs of Safety is that the publication of injury statistics invokes change? Ah, how does it do that? Since when did information become motivation? When one looks at the many promises made in the safety industry and all the propaganda about zero, injury reduction etc. there are three […]
I am a Spreadsheet King I have had numerous conversations with safety people this week who lament the amount of time they have to spend doing spreadsheets reporting on everything from injury rates, TRIFR, near miss etc. One a GM of a tier 1 organisation tells me he hasn’t had time to walk the floor […]
