Boeing Safety is a special kind of safety that is great at rhetoric and not real in reality. This is the same safety as DuPont Safety (https://safetyrisk.net/dark-waters-the-true-story-of-dupont-and-zero/) that waves the flag of zero and spruiks the propaganda of zero but does the opposite. Indeed, … [Read more...] about Boeing Safety – Rhetoric and Reality
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Hazards and Controls – Risks and Uncertainty
There’s no doubt about it, Safety loves the language of ‘hazards’ and ‘controls’. It loves those hazard registers with thousands of listed hazards. And why does Safety love this language so much, because it creates the mystique of certainty. There is no certainty but the process creates a feeling of … [Read more...] about Hazards and Controls – Risks and Uncertainty
How is Risk Amplified or Attenuated?
There is no neutral or objective analysis, observation or evaluation of risk or safety. All risk or safety analysis is affected by hundreds of factors that either mitigate the evaluation of risk or amplify it. In SPoR, we deliver several programs that help people and organisations understand … [Read more...] about How is Risk Amplified or Attenuated?
Only 50 Days to Perfection
One of the wonderful delusions of the 1% safer con is the methodology of measurement. At the foundation of this con is the fundamental use of measurement metaphor and with it the delusion that safety can be measured. This mathematical methodology is of course nonsense, safety cannot be measured, … [Read more...] about Only 50 Days to Perfection
The Positives of Risky Play
We learn yet again from research that risk is good, maturation and beneficial for learning. We also learn that risk aversion is anti-learning. And in the same way we also learn that zero is anti-learning. One thing is for sure in safety is no matter what the issue whether it be ethics, … [Read more...] about The Positives of Risky Play
WIIFM as a Foundational Cause of Mental Health Issues
What’s In It For Me (WIIFM) is one of the foundational causes of mental health issues. When we accept a culture with a focus on individualism, consumerism, behaviourism and self-interest we accept the foundations for toxic living. We may have access to smart technology and Technique but we don’t … [Read more...] about WIIFM as a Foundational Cause of Mental Health Issues
Understanding Mental Health as a Wicked Problem
One of the great Cons in Safety is that mental health is a brain problem, cognition problem, simple, easy or a behavioural problem (https://safetyrisk.net/the-aihs-phs-con/ ). Mental health is about none of these and it certainly can’t be helped by a checklist app based on behaviourism. Anyone … [Read more...] about Understanding Mental Health as a Wicked Problem
Don’t Be a Negative Nellie in Safety
The fear of negativity in safety is a disease and phobia. Say anything critical of Safety and you’re are automatically anti-safety. What a great recipe for the cultivation of ignorance. Then we have this nonsense that people can learn from what goes well from the not-so-differently group. How does … [Read more...] about Don’t Be a Negative Nellie in Safety
The AIHS PHS Con
The PHS Con 24 is an event proposed by the AIHS branded as ‘Psych Health’. The real problem about this is that the safety industry doesn’t understand psychosocial issues as a ‘health’ issue but rather as a ‘hazard’. We all know that Safety is fixated with hazards … [Read more...] about The AIHS PHS Con
Are Some Personalities Accident Prone?
The short answer is, it’s complicated. The long answer is, no! No event is simple or black and white. Anything that involves people, social context, time, human activity and randomness, constructs a ‘wicked problem’. The more factors involved in any task the more ‘wicked’ the problem. Tackling … [Read more...] about Are Some Personalities Accident Prone?
