Well, what an amazing lot of fun and learning in SPoR over the past 4 days. We finished our fourth day yesterday bringing myth and embodiment together in tackling the realities of psychosocial risk.We started surveying the current approaches to psychosocial risk that are dis-embodied, looking at the … [Read more...] about Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk
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What’s Funny About Safety?
Ha ha, you lost your best friend, how funny!You got your leg cut off, ha ha!You lost your job because you were not compliant! Ha ha!You got sacked because of zero! Ha ha!Ha ha, the safety cop is on the beat, watch out!None of this is humorous or funny.Laughing at misfortune, harm or death, is rarely … [Read more...] about What’s Funny About Safety?
Safety Cops and Safety’s Adoration of Power
I was sent a post yesterday with an apparent attempt at humour by a supposed safety professional. It was a pdf with the title of ‘Top of the Safety Cops’ and obviously trying to play some comparison to the idea of ‘top of the pops’. I won’t give this any value because any reinforcement of … [Read more...] about Safety Cops and Safety’s Adoration of Power
The Mental Illness of Identifying as Safety
One of the crazy trends in safety is the identification as Safety.If you read nonsense like the Zero Index, full of behaviourist gobbledygook, you will see it has an index (of course more measurement). Somehow this goop is ‘thought leadership’ and visionary, it is neither. Indeed, it is the … [Read more...] about The Mental Illness of Identifying as Safety
CLLR Newsletter July 2023
Theme - Psychosocial Well-Being and Safety Despite any interest shown by the safety industry for psychosocial care and mental health, there is simply nothing in the safety curriculum, accreditations or associations that helps prepare people in the safety industry for anything associated with … [Read more...] about CLLR Newsletter July 2023
The Sacred and Profane, Rituals and Semiotics, A Lesson for Safety
Recently the Australian Army in Adelaide (First Armoured Regiment) conducted a ‘ceremony’ (parade) by marching from the Adelaide Barracks to St Peter’s Cathedral. The occasion? The relocation of the regiments ‘sacred’ flag from Darwin to Adelaide. You can see a news report here: … [Read more...] about The Sacred and Profane, Rituals and Semiotics, A Lesson for Safety
Day 9 SPoR in Europe
The second week in Europe started with a new group of people, again from all over the world yearning to learn about SPoR. We even had an Aussie in this group. At least someone got my jokes. The new group came to learn Advanced Semiotics. Going beyond the basics of textbooks semiotics to lived … [Read more...] about Day 9 SPoR in Europe
Measurement Anxiety in Safety
Measurement Anxiety in Safety When we say that something has affected us ‘beyond measure’ we express one of the truisms of life. Many times in life we not only experience things ‘without measure’ but we are also ‘lost for words’. It is often in moments of ecstasy, suffering, awesomeness and … [Read more...] about Measurement Anxiety in Safety
Critical Theory, Critical Thinking and Safety
Critical Theory, Critical Thinking and Safety I have written before about the need for greater levels of critical thinking, discernment (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/real-risk/ ) and envisioning (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/envisioning-risk-seeing-vision-and-meaning-in-risk/ … [Read more...] about Critical Theory, Critical Thinking and Safety
The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate
The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate How Many Angels Can Dance on a Pinhead? Introduction Let me first acknowledge that I do not find any ranking of safety such as S1 or S2 helpful, so I try to avoid such language and will do my best to avoid it in this paper. Indeed, ranking language in safety is … [Read more...] about The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate