Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety Wise sayings are all about living and being (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wise-sayings) and mostly don’t provide answers. If you are stressed out, lonely, frazzled or confused: go for a walk, say hello, coffee with someone, smell the flowers or take in a … [Read more...] about Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety
Psychological Health and Safety
Psychological health and safety is arguably the number one emerging issue for organisations. What are you doing to understand and support your people?
Psychology of Persuasion: Top 5 influencing skills for getting what you want
Psychology of Persuasion: Top 5 influencing skills for getting what you want - with Mark Perrett The most successful coaches, consultants and leaders influence people using intrinsic motivation rather than pushing fear and threats of non-compliance. In this video, using the science and … [Read more...] about Psychology of Persuasion: Top 5 influencing skills for getting what you want
Daydreaming and Safety
Daydreaming and Safety I can remember when the song Daydream was released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlCtPh25jk), I was 13 years of age and the music of the time was astounding even revolutionary. The Lovin’ Spoonful’s version of this song raced to the top of the charts in 1966. It captured … [Read more...] about Daydreaming and Safety
Next Generation Safety Leadership–Book Review
by John Holt (first Published Here) Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care by Clive Lloyd First edition published 2020 by CRC Press Available CRC Press: Next Generation Safety Leadership The beauty of a life spent reading is this: there is always the possibility of … [Read more...] about Next Generation Safety Leadership–Book Review
Next Generation Safety Leadership
Next Generation Safety Leadership - From Compliance to Care New book by Clive Lloyd from gystconsulting.com.au - available HERE From the Foreword: "Safety as an industry is in crisis. For reasons that escape me, Australia seems to be clinging to out-dated, culture-eroding, fear-driven … [Read more...] about Next Generation Safety Leadership
In search of plan B in workers’ recovery
The cumbersome systems that have evolved around workers compensation cause frustration and suffering for employers and workers. Employers get saddled with volatile costs and workers get labelled as problems to be fixed. Health professionals reluctantly and cautiously engage in the same way that we … [Read more...] about In search of plan B in workers’ recovery
Safety as Ritual Performance
Humans create rituals so that they don’t have to think rationally about a process that is symbolized in the ritual. In this way meaning is transferred quickly and doesn’t require arduous concentration about meaning in the ritual itself. All rituals construct symbols and myths that embody the meaning … [Read more...] about Safety as Ritual Performance
Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
What do Sir James Dyson, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Vincent van Gough and Stephen King have in common? They are of course all famous people, but what many people don’t know is that they had far more failures than successes before they reached eventual … [Read more...] about Build a Psychologically Safe Workplace by Taking Risks and Analysing Failures
Are the Cracks in Orthodox Safety Becoming Chasms?
Are the Cracks in Orthodox Safety Becoming Chasms? My Worldview As with all the things I write and talk about, this comes through my own worldview, which is a social psychological one. I believe that we are fundamentally connected and social creatures, and almost everything depends on … [Read more...] about Are the Cracks in Orthodox Safety Becoming Chasms?
Diagnosing Safety
Recently, a large International company requested that I design a diagnostic to assess HSE competence including knowledge and skills associated with HSE and Social Psychology (SPoR). It was an interesting request because I was Project Officer in 1995 to the National Key Competencies experiments in … [Read more...] about Diagnosing Safety