Compliance, Obedience and The Attraction of Risk Great Response by Dr Rob Long (thanks Rob) to our recent article: Our Obsession With Forbidden Pleasures. Please find detail of Rob’s next education program at the bottom of this article. Most people know of the experiments of Stanley Milgram back … [Read more...] about Compliance, Obedience and The Attraction of Risk
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What is a Semiotic Walk?
I once met a Safety Manager who had worked at a factory for 10 years and had never walked the floor! His office was high above the factory and he could see everything either directly or via CCTV. He could easily write up any misdemeanour by surveillance (which was recorded), complete a checklist and … [Read more...] about What is a Semiotic Walk?
The Ideology of Zero Harm
Since writing my book For the Love of Zero, Human Fallibility and Risk I have received on average, two emails a week from people who have been threatened with or been sacked for challenging this mantra. Some of these people are overseas with mining and construction companies and some in … [Read more...] about The Ideology of Zero Harm
Binary Discipline and The Easy Road of Consequence
Binary Discipline and The Easy Road of Consequence There are many dimensions to the fallibility of being human and many inbuilt psychological mechanisms that operate unconsciously, individually and socially. The idea of behaviourist theory that humans are machines is nonsense. In the face of the … [Read more...] about Binary Discipline and The Easy Road of Consequence
Understanding Culture Differently
Any approach that seeks an understanding of culture requires a sophisticated sense of ‘knowing’ because, culture in itself cannot be defined or controlled like some would like. Indeed, in seeking to define (and control) Culture one already reduces it by a method of reductionism. That is, culture … [Read more...] about Understanding Culture Differently
Double Speak in Managing Risk and Safety
Enthusiasm, Motivation and Double Speak in Managing Risk and Safety I have a close friend who recently became a safety systems manager for a tier one construction company. He had just obtained his qualifications and was bright eyed, bushy tailed and enthusiastic about making a difference. He … [Read more...] about Double Speak in Managing Risk and Safety
Christmas Safety Messages, Toolbox Talks, Safety Moments and Slogans
Safety Messages and Slogans For Xmas and the Silly Season 2023 The Silly Season is upon us! Merry Xmas to all our readers! The Safe Christmas Psychosis Psychosis is a combination of symptoms resulting in an impaired relationship with reality. It can be a symptom of serious mental health … [Read more...] about Christmas Safety Messages, Toolbox Talks, Safety Moments and Slogans
The Safety Dance
When we search for metaphors to think about life, being and risk there is none better than the dance. In many ways fallible humans ‘dance’ through life and as much as we might like to invent and concoct a controllable, predictable and confined world, it is not. The reality is, the world is not … [Read more...] about The Safety Dance
Manufacturing a Worldview to Fit Safety
One of the things Safety does best is state what is, by what isn’t. What happens most often in the closed echo chamber of Safety is that one starts with the assumption that safety is the sacred starting point for thinking and then make the world fit that assumption. We see this typically with … [Read more...] about Manufacturing a Worldview to Fit Safety
Lies, Shortcuts and Lessons from Armstrong
First thought provoking article for the New Year by Dr Robert Long. I highly recommend his other Articles HERE and his new book: For The Love of Zero Lies, Shortcuts and Lessons from Armstrong Much has been made of the Armstrong scandal and many find it hard to believe that someone could be so … [Read more...] about Lies, Shortcuts and Lessons from Armstrong