Skills in Presentations, Toolbox and Inductions – Free Downloads!! I was recently requested to help an organization with their onsite induction, toolbox and presentations. So, the first thing I requested back was what they were currently doing. I wonder how surprised you would be if I told you their induction was 200 PowerPoint slides with […]
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FREE Risky Conversations Videos and Talking Book
FREE Risky Conversations Videos and Talking Book All videos in the Risky Conversation series are now downloadable. Since the publication of book 5 in the series on the Social Psychology of Risk – Risky Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology and Risk, we have gradually released the accompanying videos and they have proven to be immensely […]
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The Paradox of Positivism for Safety
The Paradox of Positivism for Safety Most people in safety would be unaware that the common philosophy driving the safety worldview is known as Positivism. You can get some background on positivism here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism. Positivism privileges information interpreted through reason and logic and is the most common worldview in the Discipline of General Science. Positivism […]
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The Stanford Experiment and The Social Psychology of Risk
The Stanford Experiment and The Social Psychology of Risk The Discipline of Social psychology is quite new, emerging strongly from the atrocities of World War Two in seeking to explain the actions and culture of the Nazis. You can read about the history of Social Psychology here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology. The application of this Discipline to understanding […]
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Don’t Make Safety a Habit
Don’t Make Safety a Habit When I was in Canada I met a group of people in a safety association whose motto was ‘Make Safety a Habit’. When I met them I asked, ‘Do you think safety needs unthinking clones doing high risk tasks by habit’. I wasn’t the most popular person in the group […]
