OnLine Learning Modules with CLLR The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk offer 21 Online Modules that will challenge and stretch your thinking and practice in tackling risk. More than 1200 students have participated in CLLR studies from over 30 countries. You can see more of what CLLR … [Read more...] about OnLine Learning Modules with CLLR
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The Swiss Cheese Addiction and Covid Delusion
The Swiss Cheese Addiction and Covid Delusion Symbols say much more than themselves just as intuition is more than we can say (Polanyi). However, when it comes to safety that deems symbols to be truth and metaphors to be reality we have addictions to models and symbols that are neither truthful nor … [Read more...] about The Swiss Cheese Addiction and Covid Delusion
Hello, I’m on the gravy train
Hello, I’m on the gravy train Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards Aldous Huxley At the turn of the millennium the Australian federal government under John Howard embarked on a sinister sociopolitical and economic crusade to emasculate and … [Read more...] about Hello, I’m on the gravy train
Causation Concoctions
The AIHS Bok on Causation commences with the following: ‘If safety management is effective, then there should be an absence of accidents. Conversely, if accidents are occurring then effective safety management must be absent’ (p.1). The assumptions in these statements are of course not declared in … [Read more...] about Causation Concoctions
The Value of Transdisciplinary Inquiry in a Crisis
Australian Story on 13 April 2020 entitled Fighting Fire With Fire (https://www.abc.net.au/austory/fighting-fire-with-fire/12134242) raised the idea that Indigenous Traditional knowledge about fire ought to be valued. The story surfaced this possibility in the midst of enquiry into the terrible … [Read more...] about The Value of Transdisciplinary Inquiry in a Crisis
Desensitization, Statistics and the Psychic Numbing of Numerics
One of the lessons Safety continually doesn’t learn is that numerics, metrics and statistics desensitize people to caring. This is known as psychic numbing and has been well researched by Slovic and others … [Read more...] about Desensitization, Statistics and the Psychic Numbing of Numerics
Down Time for Some Good Unlearning
Nothing is as poor for learning as busyness. You can be so busy that you have no time to reflect and ask yourself key questions like: · Where is this taking me? · What is the trajectory? · What is this process doing to me? · How is this process humanizing? · How can this be helpful? · Does … [Read more...] about Down Time for Some Good Unlearning
Mississippi Burning
If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal Emma Goldman 1 In deep north Queensland on 18th August 2016 the state government announced a parliamentary inquiry into the re-identification of black lung throughout its coal mining sector. The select committee received harrowing evidence from … [Read more...] about Mississippi Burning
Starting Points, Worldviews and Risk
The Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) (https://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/?get_group_doc=26/1357000136-PhenomenologyofPerception.pdf) is not easy reading. If one is interested in the phenomena of consciousness, worldviews and ‘being’ then give it a go. Here is an introductory quote for … [Read more...] about Starting Points, Worldviews and Risk
An Ethic of Risk Workshop 10,11 May 2020
The next scheduled workshop by the Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk is the Ethics in Risk Workshop for 10,11 May in Canberra. You can register and read an overview here: https://cllr.com.au/product/an-ethic-of-risk-unit-17/ It is important to register early as it looks like we may need to … [Read more...] about An Ethic of Risk Workshop 10,11 May 2020