It was delightful this week to have a chat with Dylan Evans author of Risk Intelligence, How to Live With Uncertainty, Emotion, The Science of Sentiment and The Utopia Experiment. You can find the conversation on Spotify here: … [Read more...] about A Podcast with Dylan Evans
Robert Long
Absolute Shocker of the Week
Absolute Shocker of the Week Guest Post By Dr Rob Long – see more of his articles HERE Isn’t it amazing how people in the safety profession think it is wonderful to parade photo-shopped images of people being illogical, irrational and nonsensical? It primes the population with the idea that … [Read more...] about Absolute Shocker of the Week
You Spell the Devil L-T-I and God P-P-E
This story by Dr Long would seem totally ludicrous if it weren’t true! We hear these stories every day yet those with the most to gain and the ability to change it are the only ones in fear and denial. I wrote previously about The Safety Revolution or the “Tipping Point” coming but in the context of … [Read more...] about You Spell the Devil L-T-I and God P-P-E
Meaningless Non-Vision in Safety
It’s always amusing to see Safety throw language about with no meaning such as ‘revolutionary’, ‘visionary’, ‘trailblazer’ and ‘thought leader’. This is the language one uses when traditional Safety talks to traditional Safety about traditional safety. Apparently, one is a ‘visionary trailblazer’ … [Read more...] about Meaningless Non-Vision in Safety
Propositions to Not Live By
When we run our Poetics module (https://cllr.com.au/product/poetics-flyer-module-22/) we get people to share a poem, song, music, art or aesthetic experience of significance. It is one of the most profound things we do and, everyone struggles to limit their choice to just one piece/example. People … [Read more...] about Propositions to Not Live By
51 Stories in Culture, To Live and To Be – Free Download
The book 51 Stories in Culture, To Live and To Be is now available for free download. If you want to learn about culture and safety culture, this book will help. DOWNLOAD IT HERE This is book 14 in the series on the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) with many other books available for free … [Read more...] about 51 Stories in Culture, To Live and To Be – Free Download
Agnotology, What We Don’t Want to Know in Safety
We know that moment when Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of State, declared in 12 Feb 2002, that we have: ‘known knowns, unknown knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns’ (https://youtu.be/GiPe1OiKQuk?si=lrtA5UwvImfvdI1i ). This was in response to a journalists question about why the USA … [Read more...] about Agnotology, What We Don’t Want to Know in Safety
Understanding e-motion, Motivation, Goals and Learning in Risk – A Video
Behaviourism as a philosophy and methodology doesn’t explain why people do what they do. It is a simplistic ideology that defines persons as machines and the sum of inputs and outputs. This is not why people do what they do. Positive and negative reinforcement have a very short shelf life in … [Read more...] about Understanding e-motion, Motivation, Goals and Learning in Risk – A Video
When You Don’t Know What to Do in Safety, Dress it Up
So often we see Safety grasping at any medium to present its traditional message. Rather than ask ‘why did the last strategy not work?’, Safety doesn’t do that. Instead, it thinks the medium is the problem NOT the message and so, looks to dress up the medium by making it entertaining, ‘sexy’ … [Read more...] about When You Don’t Know What to Do in Safety, Dress it Up
Free Download – Audiobook, Risk Makes Sense
We have decided to release for free download, our second audiobook here >>>>> Risk Makes Sense, Human Judgment and Risk This is in addition to our other audiobook with Greg Smith and Dr Craig Ashhurst, Risk Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology and Risk: … [Read more...] about Free Download – Audiobook, Risk Makes Sense