Here’s the challenge for anyone who holds to the mantra ‘all accidents are preventable’. Ask them to predict how long it will be in their organisation or any organisation for that matter, that they will be harm free. Hopefully they will go to their injury data and based on the history of injury at … [Read more...] about Forecasting Safety
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Culture Cloud Tour part 9; Language, Linguistics and Paralinguistics
We resume the culture cloud tour after a week’s hiatus, because even Dave C needs a break from work and a holiday. Hope you are well rested and relaxed in the run up to Christmas mate! Language as a part of Culture is foundational. How you organisation expresses itself, the common language, and … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud Tour part 9; Language, Linguistics and Paralinguistics
Its all About Behaviours
Its all About Behaviours I'd like a dollar for every time I get asked if do programs on 'behaviours'. Oh, doesn't safety love behaviours. I often get asked this question by people who want to control the behaviour of others. It is amazing how attractive behaviourism is to the safety industry. … [Read more...] about Its all About Behaviours
Theology and Risk Workshop
It is amazing just how much theological language is used in the risk and safety industry, without much understanding or awareness of what is being stated. A classic is Dekker’s book on suffering loaded with over 30 references to biblical theology. This book opens with Dekker apologising for even … [Read more...] about Theology and Risk Workshop
Safety is Not All in the Brain
One of the grand delusions of traditional safety is that learning is all in the brain. When you look at the ideology of traditional safety such as HOP, all the semiotics is brain-centric. Anyone with any expertise and intelligence in Education and Learning knows that human development is about … [Read more...] about Safety is Not All in the Brain
The Seduction to Simplify Safety
The Seduction to Simplify Safe Work Method Statements Everyone knows that we are already in an age of excess in safety. This is the dilemma of optimisation. Some now talk about ‘ultra-safety’ organisations and wonder how much more they can do and say in the name of safety. How much does one have to … [Read more...] about The Seduction to Simplify Safety
Culture Cloud part 6: Embodied Learning
Embodied Learning and Somatics: When we understand the somatic and kinaesthetic nature of human embodied action we know that the whole body participates in decision making and that the brain is NOT a computer. The use of this computer metaphor is as silly as thinking of the human eye as a camera. … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud part 6: Embodied Learning
The Influence of C.G. Jung in SPoR
One is not likely to read the works of C.G. Jung or consider such works as relevant if one is committed to the dominant paradigm of risk and safety – Behaviourism & Positivism. Similarly, if one has a worldview anchored to Scientism and Engineering one is not likely to give any metaphysical view … [Read more...] about The Influence of C.G. Jung in SPoR
Is Safety Narcissistic?
I read with interest the article Potential for More from SHP and it’s so much about what Safety does, is look at itself. It reminds me of Narcissus, the Greek myth of the man who falls in love with his own image: It seems whenever Safety wants to know something, it looks at itself. So much … [Read more...] about Is Safety Narcissistic?
Are we living in Chronos or Kairos time?
by Brian Darlington Following a visit to Slovenia’s Skocjan Caves, our columnist reflects on two different types of time and highlights why we should all live in the one as often as we can. After a recent visit to one of our operations in Italy, focusing on a large rebuild project, I decided to … [Read more...] about Are we living in Chronos or Kairos time?
