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It’s Zero or Nothing for Global Safety

March 5, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

It’s Zero or Nothing for Global Safety

The grand delusion of the safety industry is zero. This is the most divisive, dumb, unbelievable and ignorant development in the history of any industry. As long as this ideology, dogma and doctrine remain at its centre, the industry will never become professional.

There is no doctrine this industry could have chosen that could be more fragmented, idiotic and delusional than this ideology. This is the ideology that ends up with the global safety industry preaching ‘spiritual healing’ as some kind of Pentecostal response to an apocalypse (https://safetyrisk.net/the-spirit-of-zero/ ) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIRXEuniWA ) as if somehow this makes sense!

Just imagine, believe in zero and your amputated leg will restore, your burned face will go away, your infected lungs will be made whole and even your ageism will vanish. I kid you not. Just watch this global safety industry nonsense below and ask yourself, does this industry have a mental health condition?

Ah yes, just watch the transformation, believe in zero and you will go from this:

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to this:

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and what’s more. This happens in a ‘blink of an eye’ (not my language, but the safety industry). Oh yes, believe zero and miracles will happen. Little did I know safety has merged with Hillsong (https://safetyrisk.net/no-evidence-for-the-religion-of-zero/). Such faith healing (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-as-faith-healing/ ) is the only way to join.

Please watch this video and tell me safety is professional.

Of course, if you want to research a little on the history of zero, you might find out that it all started as a mathematical place holder and that in reality zero is both nothing and infinity. Yet, this silly industry has made it something and nothing (https://aeon.co/videos/a-history-of-nothing-how-zero-went-from-nil-to-something). But hold on to your hats, the most important thing to safety is that you ‘believe the impossible’.

Sound religious to you? You bet it is and will be on full display when the global safety circus comes to Sydney next year (https://www.safety2023sydney.com/ ). with all the agnostic associations like the AIHS singing the praises of zero, that they don’t believe in. Yes, roll up roll up, read all the news about how zero is saving the world (https://visionzero.global/news ). How strange that 90% of the industry doesn’t believe in this cultic stuff (https://safetyrisk.net/first-report-on-zero-survey/ ) demonstrating a tyranny of a few over the many. Yes, join your safety association and believe in zero.

Zero is the ultimate ideology for exclusion. You can’t join the AIHS and criticize zero or safety orthodoxy. You either believe zero or you cannot come in. Zero is absolute, you cannot have half zero or half believe in zero. Of course, half zero is zero and twice zero is zero.

And of course, if something goes wrong in a zero organization it’s because you didn’t have enough ‘faith’ in zero. Zero cannot tolerate unbelief in zero, because such belief accommodates fallibility (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/fallibility-risk-living-uncertainty/ ) and the inevitability of harm. (How many injuries do you want today?) No, safety is the only industry that believes in infallibility of humans, well done!

Such is the lunacy of this ideology.

Ah, and then the associations wonder why safety people don’t join the cult! You can’t believe in learning and zero (https://safetyrisk.net/you-cant-believe-in-zero-and-learning-at-the-same-time/). You cannot be ethical and believe in zero!

Of course, it is possible to tackle risk professionally without zero. Indeed, safety will improve if you get rid of it. You will even find out that safety ‘works’ best when you get rid of it (https://safetyrisk.net/moving-away-from-zero-so-that-safety-improves/ ). And when you get rid of it, you put much better practical, ethical and realistic thinking and enactivity (https://safetyrisk.net/what-does-spor-do/ ) in its place.

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  1. Brent Charlton says

    March 5, 2022 at 10:18 PM

    I want to grab one of the people behind this, take them to a seriously injured or dead person’s home, and have them tell the family it happened because their loved one didn’t care enough or didn’t believe in zero harm. I find the firefighter inclusion especially offensive as a former firefighter myself. Did the 9/11 firefighters (or any others) die because they didn’t believe in zero harm, or were they doing a dangerous job most of the zero crowd wouldn’t even consider – risking their lives trying to save others? I guess the zero crowd would say they were stupid and took unnecessary risk?

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    • Rob Long says

      March 6, 2022 at 8:28 AM

      Brent, the level of dumb exhibited in this video that global safety proudly display is astounding. Truly the industry of dumb if this is what global safety thinks safety is. The symbolism, language and images all demonstrate that this industry has no concept of ethics or professionalism.

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  2. Matthew Thorne says

    March 5, 2022 at 3:46 PM

    Are Zero Harmers the Anti-Vaxxers of the safety world?

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    • Rob Long says

      March 6, 2022 at 8:30 AM

      Matthew, good question. One thing is for sure and according to my survey most safety people on the ground think zero is total BS. But apparently if your criticize stupidity you are ‘toxic’.

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