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What is the Human Body for in Safety?

April 29, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

What is the Human Body for in Safety? The body-mind problem (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/mind-body-problem ) ought to be a concern for anyone interested in how organisations … [Read more...] about What is the Human Body for in Safety?

Filed Under: Mental health, Robert Long Tagged With: behaviourism, human body, neuroscience

You Don’t Fess Up Without Trust

April 27, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

You Don’t Fess Up Without Trust We saw a classic example of how Safety doesn’t work this week in the Australian election campaign … [Read more...] about You Don’t Fess Up Without Trust

Filed Under: Psychological Safety, Robert Long, Safety Culture, Zero Harm Tagged With: trust

Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Risk

April 25, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Risk How we understand decision making and sense-making in time constructs how we explain risk and human enactment. Decision-making is about an enactment in the … [Read more...] about Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: fallibility, sense making, weick

Holistic Responses to Mental Health

April 23, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Holistic Responses to Mental Health One of the most important factors in mental health is social being. In SPoR we call this Socialitie. The idea that mental health is about brain programming or … [Read more...] about Holistic Responses to Mental Health

Filed Under: Mental health, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK, holistic ergonomics

Linguistics, Language and Meaning in Risk

April 20, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Linguistics, Language and Meaning in Risk When we study Linguistics in SPoR (https://cllr.com.au/product/linguistics-flyer-unit-21/ ) we look at language, the acquisition of language and the purpose … [Read more...] about Linguistics, Language and Meaning in Risk

Filed Under: Learning, Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: language, linguistics

Social Psychology Of Risk Workshops

April 19, 2022 by Admin 2 Comments

Social Psychology Of Risk Workshops Three Workshops It’s been over 2 years since we have been able to offer face to face programs in Canberra. Well, here is your opportunity to increase your … [Read more...] about Social Psychology Of Risk Workshops

Filed Under: CLLR, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: workshops

Is Safety A Virtue Signal?

April 18, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Is Safety A Virtue Signal? I was in a bookshop the other day and saw this book The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness. What a crazy society and age we live in where caring for others, helping in the … [Read more...] about Is Safety A Virtue Signal?

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, virtue signalling, woke

Being Emotional and Being Safe

April 16, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Being Emotional and Being Safe Studying the nature of human emotions is neither simple, binary or black and white. It doesn’t matter whether one is talking about learning … [Read more...] about Being Emotional and Being Safe

Filed Under: Ethics, Psychological Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK, emotion, transdisciplinary approach

CLLR–Quarterly Newsletter–April 2022

April 15, 2022 by Admin Leave a Comment

Theme - Success and Strategy The theme for this newsletter is Success and Strategy. The newsletter challenges thinking on assessment, evaluation, tyheories of learning and attributed … [Read more...] about CLLR–Quarterly Newsletter–April 2022

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Understanding Real Risk

April 15, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Understanding Real Risk When I wrote the book Real Risk, Human Discerning and Risk (2014), it was in response to engaging with the culture of the safety industry. I was never brought up in the … [Read more...] about Understanding Real Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: real risk, Richard Harris

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