Brian and Aneta landed in Canberra yesterday from a long flight. This is their fifth visit for a week of coaching, sharing and learning. It’s a long way from Austria and Poland. Our first day after flight recovery was for walking, semiotics, catch up, reset and sharing vision. So, we went for … [Read more...] about A Different World of Risk
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Of Course, Safety is a ‘Thing’
I read with amusement yesterday a self-declared ‘safety expert’ who asserted that safety was not a ‘thing’ so therefore there was no such ‘thing’ as ‘safety culture’. It’s always amusing to observe mono-disciplinary Safety, with no expertise in Linguistics, Semiotics, Ethnology, Poetics, Ethics … [Read more...] about Of Course, Safety is a ‘Thing’
Is Safety Rational?
A Logical Fallacy is faulty reasoning to reach a desired conclusion based on faith/belief. It is because Safety is such a religious activity, it is anchored to many of these logical fallacies. You can view the most common logical fallacies and this poster … [Read more...] about Is Safety Rational?
What’s Said and Not Said in Safety
Participants in the Linguistics module (https://cllr.com.au/product/linguistics-flyer-unit-21/) are near the last session next week and everyone has learned and practiced so much. One of the skills we have practiced is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The use of language is neither neutral, … [Read more...] about What’s Said and Not Said in Safety
Three Cheers for the Safety Apologists
I find it so amusing that criticism of Safety is considered a negative but when Safety apologists reply in the negative that’s OK. Apologetics is the study of the defence of faith. It is foundational to religious studies. What is fascinating in Safety is the level of religious fervour … [Read more...] about Three Cheers for the Safety Apologists
Symbols Can be Useful But Are Not ‘True’
One of the first things one learns in the use of signs and symbol systems is that all graphics, models and symbolics are subjective and are used to validate a methodology. In this way one can declare something as mythically true or symbolically true but not true in an evidential or philosophical … [Read more...] about Symbols Can be Useful But Are Not ‘True’
Why Does 1B3M Matter in Safety?
Whether you can articulate it or not, your philosophy and ethic of the human matters for safety (https://safetyrisk.net/and-the-enemy-of-safety-is-humans/ ). If you view the human as an object, number or a hazard then brutalising persons becomes easy. This is what the AIHS endorses … [Read more...] about Why Does 1B3M Matter in Safety?
Safety Belief for Sheep
Safety believes many things that are simply not true or real but they are made mythically true through semiotic faith. Then again, you are not likely to believe evidence for this if you have no expertise in: semiotics, faith, religion, epistemology, mythology or ethnology. Understanding mythology … [Read more...] about Safety Belief for Sheep
Evidence for One Brian Three Minds in SPoR
It is always good to be asked an open question of SPoR and these are always welcomed. The key to learning in risk and safety is reading and conversing outside the mono-disciplinary genre of risk and safety and by asking open questions. SPoR has no interest in closed questions of non-inquiry or … [Read more...] about Evidence for One Brian Three Minds in SPoR
Knowing What You Don’t Know in Safety
One of the foundations of appreciating the Olympics is knowing what you don’t know. It is so easy to be an armchair expert, having never studied the event, have no experience in the event, no feeling for the event, no knowledge in the event and using your expertise in philately to analyse what you … [Read more...] about Knowing What You Don’t Know in Safety
