SIA has a Bet ‘Each Way’ on Zero Following in the wake of the Vision Zero spectacle at the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2017 the SIA decided to release a statement on Zero on 20 September 2017. The Statement is nothing short of simple spin-doctoring to ‘have a bet each way’ on … [Read more...] about SIA has a Bet ‘Each Way’ on Zero
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Real Harm, Real Risk and The Safety Way
Real Harm, Real Risk and The Safety Way One of the by-products of the zero delusion is the way it focuses the safety industry on petty ‘pissy’ risk. As long as Safety adores and identifies as Zero (https://visionzero.global/ ), it can never mature, understand risk or be professional. Whilst … [Read more...] about Real Harm, Real Risk and The Safety Way
Science and Acts of Faith in Safety
Science and Acts of Faith in Safety The language of scientific ‘proofs’ is the language of positivism, behaviourism and empiricism. Such a language often gives away a discourse of control, power and security in the face of uncertainty. It is one thing to seek knowledge ‘scientifically’ and … [Read more...] about Science and Acts of Faith in Safety
The Non-Science of Safety Science
The Non-Science of Safety Science By Dr Rob Long We seem to throw words about in the safety community like hoop-la at a school fete. This not only applies to the use of the word ‘culture’ but also to destructive terminology that undermines the sensibility of understanding risk. Expressions … [Read more...] about The Non-Science of Safety Science
Ethics, Morality and an Ethic of Risk
It is important to know the difference between Ethics, Morality, Virtue and an Ethic. · An Ethic is a methodology (philosophy/ontology) that drives a method. · Ethics encompass the study of that Ethic and its outworking in morality. · A Code of Ethics is a systematic policy in organizing to … [Read more...] about Ethics, Morality and an Ethic of Risk
Understanding Systems and Ecologies in Risk
Understanding Systems and Ecologies in Risk It was Karl Weick (1979) who defined organizing as: ‘consensually validated grammar for reducing equivocality by means of sensible interlocking behaviours’. This is such a comprehensive definition of how humans organize. If we think of organizing as … [Read more...] about Understanding Systems and Ecologies in Risk
Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently
Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently The separation of Body/Mind is a perennial problem of Philosophy. Known as ‘the Body Mind Problem’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem; https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/discovery-mind-body-problem/ ). The ‘problem’ centres on a debate … [Read more...] about Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently
Is This Your AIHS?
What is it about the safety industry that thinks OHS qualifies one in everything? What is it about Safety that makes one a Teacher, Nurse, Social Worker, Epidemiologist, Hospital Administrator, Doctor, Lawyer and Brain Surgeon? Just because safety is a generic generalist study what gives Safety the … [Read more...] about Is This Your AIHS?
Culture Silences in Safety – Stress, Personality and Behaviours
In all the mythology projected by BBS (the darling of safety) you never read about the subjectivities of perception, aberrations of behaviour or how personality/temperament determination enactment. The crazy assertion of BBS is that behaviours in themselves are somehow objective, when they are not. … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Stress, Personality and Behaviours
Doing Something Bad Well
Doing Something Bad Well Every time I write about the strange projections of Safety or criticize pathetic attempts to remain relevant I get this strange response of ‘well at least they are trying to do something’. What a strange idea. A good example is this dumb campaign from Safework NZ on … [Read more...] about Doing Something Bad Well
