The short answer is, no! The long answer is, how much mumbo jumbo do you want to read? The extended question is, why do you want to? And, What are your assumptions about fallibility and prediction? I was sent a link to this publication A Domain-Specific Risk-Attitude Scale: Measuring … [Read more...] about Can Risk Perception and Behaviour Be Measured?
What You Give Up Using AI To Do Safety
The purpose of doing is learning. Learning through experience is our best teacher. This is because one of the best ways to learn is through feeling the results of doing. There’s nothing like disappointment and failure to teach a lesson. Similarly, there’s nothing like reward and success to … [Read more...] about What You Give Up Using AI To Do Safety
THE POWER OF BEGINNINGS…
by Billy Snead We just finished an exciting class with Rob on Embodiment in Risk yesterday. I am so grateful to be engaged in the SPoR learning process. As we finished the course with a short session Mind Mapping the learnings of us all, someone added that their key takeaway was that there is power … [Read more...] about THE POWER OF BEGINNINGS…
VIP, Just pay at the door!
Mere minutes after finishing a 5 week course on Embodiment and Risk with Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR), this arrives (see below) PHSCON 2025 mail out More about this promo later. When Social Psychology of Risk talks about ‘Persons’ and Personhood?’ Here is a … [Read more...] about VIP, Just pay at the door!
Tension and Meeting
By Frank Garrett While on a walk-about in Denag VN I came across the following street art. In the last image I was drawn to the expression of a young girl alone and without connection to others. The feeling made me think of Martin Buber ‘s I-thou philosophy, and the theory that there is no being, … [Read more...] about Tension and Meeting
How To Start Listening and Stop Telling in Safety
Two of the biggest obstacles to tackling risk effectively in the workplace are ‘telling’ and ‘controlling’. How strange that these are what safety training cultivate the most. Yet, when we know how to suspend our agenda authentically, ask open questions and orient towards ‘the other’, we then … [Read more...] about How To Start Listening and Stop Telling in Safety
‘Conversations on the Couch’–Biases
'Conversations on the Couch' – Biases In this edition of 'Conversations on the Couch', Gab & Rob talk through how the various biases we all have. If we want to truly understand and deal with risk, we need to recognise that it is subjective and that our thinking about risk is biased in so … [Read more...] about ‘Conversations on the Couch’–Biases
Sexy Curves and the Paradox of Risk
Sexy Curves and the Paradox of Risk Rob’s new Book: “Following-Leading in Risk” is a MUST READ if you think you already know about Leadership. CHECK IT OUT One of the modern myths of mechanistic safety is that injury rates have been coming down for the last 100 years. Presenters love to parade the … [Read more...] about Sexy Curves and the Paradox of Risk
SPoR Across the Globe, An Update
Next week there are two conferences being held in SPoR across Europe. One in Bucharest and one in Aberdeen. It’s not too late to join in. Just email the following. Aberdeen: nippin.anand@novellus.solutions Bucharest: decebalm@corporatedynamics.ro We are currently finishing our module on … [Read more...] about SPoR Across the Globe, An Update
The Absurdity of Safety. Camus and the Search for Meaning in a Reductionist System
By Simon Renatus The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. (Camus, 1955, p. 78) Contemporary Safety presents an unresolvable paradox: it promises predictability, control, and coherence, yet operates within environments defined by … [Read more...] about The Absurdity of Safety. Camus and the Search for Meaning in a Reductionist System