Learning About Learning in Risk and Safety A Google search of ‘risk and safety training in Australia’ reveals more than 103,000,000 results. The focus of such training seems to be programming people to absorb information on legislation, safety processes and engineering based subjects. This seems to … [Read more...] about Learning About Learning in Risk and Safety
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Learning Doesn’t Provide Immunity
Learning Doesn’t Provide Immunity Just because I’ve learnt a little about how I make decisions and judgments, it does not mean that I will always make better decisions. I know that I am vulnerable in my decision-making and that it is thick with bias. Perhaps the best I can hope for is to recognise … [Read more...] about Learning Doesn’t Provide Immunity
Online Inductions and Safety Effectiveness
I visited an organisation last week which was very excited about their new online induction process as it meant that new employees can “hit the ground running” and has freed up their safety people. It was obvious that induction, to them, was just a necessary evil and a process to tick off rather … [Read more...] about Online Inductions and Safety Effectiveness
I Learned Heaps! Good, What Changed?
I find it amusing when I hear people talk about going to conferences and getting excited about all they ‘learned’. It is equally as fascinating to hear that these conferences we about ‘innovation’, ‘new view’, ‘differently’ and ‘creativity’ and yet nothing changed. Taking in data and information … [Read more...] about I Learned Heaps! Good, What Changed?
Stay Curious, Be Teachable and Open to Learning in Safety
There’s nothing more opposed to learning than the idea that there is no more to be known. In safety, once the regulation has been indoctrinated by the curriculum, all that happens next has to be the policing it. It then becomes a closed circle. No more has to be known. Any threat to this cycle … [Read more...] about Stay Curious, Be Teachable and Open to Learning in Safety
The Learning Moment in Safety
The idea of learning is a paradox. How do humans come to learn something they do not know? What happens in that Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky) when a person moves from the unknown to the known. How can you know something that you don’t know? Why do people drop something they thought they … [Read more...] about The Learning Moment in Safety
Experiential Learning for Safety and Risk
Experiential Learning for Safety and Risk Wikipedia describes Experiential learning as: the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing" You will see this classic quote many times throughout this blog: “How can I … [Read more...] about Experiential Learning for Safety and Risk
Cautions in eLearning Safety
How can I know what I think or feel until I see what I say and do? – Prof. Karl E. Weick. I recently supported a friend in attaining their Building and Construction White Card on the Internet. I found the experience quite troubling. As an educator with more than 35 years experience, there were … [Read more...] about Cautions in eLearning Safety
Workshops Dr Nippin Anand – Hong Kong, Singapore, Canberra, Melbourne
Dr Nippin Anand (https://novellus.solutions/) will be conducting workshops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth in May 2024. You can find and register for all these events here: https://novellus.solutions/events/ Nippin will also be one of the key speakers at the annual SPoR … [Read more...] about Workshops Dr Nippin Anand – Hong Kong, Singapore, Canberra, Melbourne
Poisoning the Professional Waterhole
Poisoning the Professional Waterhole In the latest IOSH magazine you can find a host of safety gobbledygook , enough to turn you off an industry consumed with itself. We know about zero vision but did you know that a career in safety makes you an education expert? Apparently so. Wonderful how … [Read more...] about Poisoning the Professional Waterhole