Obsession is one of the first indicators of a mental health disorder (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996422000834 ). A good example is OCD (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd). Any obsession is not good yet, here we are in risk and … [Read more...] about Don’t be Obsessed with Safety
Psychosocial Safety
A Guide to Psychosocial Safety Skills
A Guide to Psychosocial Safety Skills We last published a short article on Psychosocial Safety by Dr Robert Long here: What is Psychosocial Safety. Rob has kindly given us permission to publish the entire guide. DOWNLOAD THE PAPER HERE: A Guide to Psychosocial Safety … [Read more...] about A Guide to Psychosocial Safety Skills
Mindfulness is NOT Brain-fullness and other Psychosocial Myths
The exchange of the word ‘mind’ for ‘brain’ perpetuates a host of myths that are dangerous and harmful (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353526/) for psychosocial health. The human Mind is NOT the brain but should be understood to mean ‘whole person’. This is why defining personhood … [Read more...] about Mindfulness is NOT Brain-fullness and other Psychosocial Myths
Have You Had a Drink of SafeTea?
October is apparently ‘safety month’, a great idea to generate tokenism compared to other months. This year I see the ‘SafeTea chat’ initiative. Sounds like a great idea for open conversations and trusting-listening, hmmm, not likely. Even the expression ‘WHS discussions’ is use but? None of this … [Read more...] about Have You Had a Drink of SafeTea?
If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health
As long as Safety is founded in the nonsense of injury rate counting and zero, it will never ever be able to tackle the challenges of psychosocial health. The fundamental problem for Safety is, it doesn’t know what to do with fallibility, mortality, vulnerability, corporeal being and … [Read more...] about If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health
Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk
Well, what an amazing lot of fun and learning in SPoR over the past 4 days. We finished our fourth day yesterday bringing myth and embodiment together in tackling the realities of psychosocial risk.We started surveying the current approaches to psychosocial risk that are dis-embodied, looking at the … [Read more...] about Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk
7 Golden Rules that are NOT Golden
The more you look into the so called ‘7 golden rules of zero’, the more you realise just how much zero toxifies the process of tackling risk. Have a look at the checklist with so called ‘golden rule’ two and have a look at the language. What is noticed first is that all of this is just … [Read more...] about 7 Golden Rules that are NOT Golden
Why Zero Vision Can Never Tackle Mental Health
The foundation of zero is intolerance. Zero is absolute and dominates the safety industry. It is the most mentioned language in the upcoming Zero Congress to be held in November in Sydney. Indeed, it is described by the Congress as the ‘common denominator’ of safety … [Read more...] about Why Zero Vision Can Never Tackle Mental Health
If Psychosocial Health Matters, Stop Hot Desking
An Aspiration for Nothing or If Psychosocial Health Matters, Stop Hot Desking There’s no point in having an aspiration or wish for a safe workplace if it’s just ‘pie in the sky’. There is no point in wishing for nothing, that’s what Zero does … [Read more...] about If Psychosocial Health Matters, Stop Hot Desking
Effective Strategies in Mental Health at Work
The strategy of triumphalism or learning from the suffering of others doesn’t work in helping people with mental health issues. Yet, this populist strategy is what Safety does most often (https://safetyrisk.net/playing-with-mental-health-in-safety-is-dangerous/). Yes, let’s parade out someone who … [Read more...] about Effective Strategies in Mental Health at Work