I read this nonsense from the ASSP on ethics and of course, it is laughable (The Professional Ethics of Workplace Safety and Health). It is straight out of the AIHS BoK playbook on tokenism in ethics (https://safetyrisk.net/the-aihs-bok-and-ethics-check-your-gut/). This is typical of safety … [Read more...] about A Guide to Tokenism in Ethics in Safety
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The Questions You Ask in Safety are Showing?
Our questions frame our world, they show our worldview and what we think matters. Similarly, the questions we don’t ask, deliver the same. They tell us what we don’t want to know, and in Safety, there’s a lot it doesn’t want to know. These are the silences in safety … [Read more...] about The Questions You Ask in Safety are Showing?
OHS Voices From the Resistance – Book review
What a timely and insightful book on the safety industry, recently released by Rosa Carrillo (https://carrilloconsultants.com/product/voices-from-the-resistance/). OHS Voices from the Resistance is a book that documents the malaise of an industry that harms its own people psychosocially whilst at … [Read more...] about OHS Voices From the Resistance – Book review
Understanding Cults and Safety/Zero
I always find it amusing when an engineer claims SPoR is a cult. These are the same who lecture the safety industry on cult-ure and who know nothing about both. The truth is, those most susceptible to cults are those most ignorant of cults. Of course, there is no greater cult than the cult of … [Read more...] about Understanding Cults and Safety/Zero
Dot to Dot Safety for Non-Professionals
One of the most reliable things about Safety is that it doesn’t know what to do about risk. This is most obvious when it adopts campaigns like: meerkats, Hazardman, dumb ways to die, Mums for Safety, brain blobs for mental health (https://safetyrisk.net/how-not-to-view-mental-health-and-safety/), … [Read more...] about Dot to Dot Safety for Non-Professionals
The Safety Belief System
Beliefs in Safety are assumed not discussed. Beliefs like zero are projected but not up for question under the assumption that zero is the only acceptable target (https://www.icmm.com/en-gb/stories/2022/zero-harm-only-acceptable-target). No-one questions the assumptions behind such statements or … [Read more...] about The Safety Belief System
The Nonsense of ‘Safety Awareness’
One of the characteristics of the culture of Safety is throwing about terminology with not a clue what it means. Then once the code word is spoken everyone thinks they have an explanation. A classic example is the meaningless term ‘safety awareness’ paraded ignorantly in this incident investigation … [Read more...] about The Nonsense of ‘Safety Awareness’
When You Don’t Know, Just Make S4*t Up
I get sent so much each day by safety people who want me to criticise and make comment. Most often this is because they tell me they cannot or they will lose their job. This is the culture of safety that forbids criticism, makes dissent taboo and holds compliance as a sacred decree. This is the … [Read more...] about When You Don’t Know, Just Make S4*t Up
Zero is Founded on Deceit and Lies
Telling people that the impossible is possible is a lie, telling people that zero is achievable is a lie. Such messages are the ultimate in fraudulence (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-fraudulence/). More so, self-deception and bad faith … [Read more...] about Zero is Founded on Deceit and Lies
The Blessings of Fallibility
The human condition is unique, paradoxical and ‘wicked’. If you want to understand fallibility, human mortality and human personhood then read some of the following as be a helpful start. If you want to condemn fallibility as some kind of ‘curse’ or negative projection, then just … [Read more...] about The Blessings of Fallibility
