Study Calendar for Semester One 2019 Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR) Recent study group in Canberra If you wish to study the Social Psychology of Risk, the training calendar is now out for semester one in 2019. You can register here: … [Read more...] about Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR)–Study Calendar
Robert Long
None so Blind as Those That Don’t Want to See – Due Diligence
None so Blind as Those That Don’t Want to See – Due Diligence Last week Greg Smith and I delivered our Due Diligence workshop which was over subscribed by over 100 registrations. Registrations closed at 28. We will be offering a new set of workshops in 2019 including in New Zealand. As usual we … [Read more...] about None so Blind as Those That Don’t Want to See – Due Diligence
No Ethic of Hope in Zero
No Ethic of Hope in Zero The denial of fallibility in the language of zero offers no hope for fallible human beings. Hope is much more than a concept of wishing, naïve optimism nor some unrealistic sense of desire. Hope is always about the unknown future and therefore should be understood as … [Read more...] about No Ethic of Hope in Zero
New Video Series on Safety
New Video Series on Safety Conversations With Jeff Lyth on A New View of Safety As part of my last visit to Canada Jeff Lyth and I decided to record some casual conversations and reflections (in my motel room) about his work in BC (https://www.qspleadership.com/) and about the safety … [Read more...] about New Video Series on Safety
The Bunnings Banger Bungle
The Bunnings Banger Bungle No wonder people think that safety is the industry of stupidity. Oh, here comes the safety nerd, the dork wrapped in orgiastic delight in the myth of hyper-safety. Here comes the risk averse wrecker and fun police worried about petty pissy safety … [Read more...] about The Bunnings Banger Bungle
Social Psychology of Risk in Canada
Social Psychology of Risk in Canada What a wonderful few weeks in Canada at Vancouver, Whistler and Calgary. So much fun sharing the work of SPoR and challenging boundaries and practice in safety. This is the second visit to Canada and momentum is growing in interest to humanize safety … [Read more...] about Social Psychology of Risk in Canada
The Safetyization of Normal Life
The Safetyization of Normal Life One of the delusions of safetyism is the naive belief that safetyism works for normal fallible people. One of the delusions of Zeroism is the idiocy of speaking absolutes to fallible people. Strangely safetyization is only a workplace thing, no one lives this … [Read more...] about The Safetyization of Normal Life
Safety as a Patriarchal Activity
Safety as a Patriarchal Activity One of the concerns of the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) is with Patriarchy. Patriarchy is about more than just men exorcising power. It is about the organizing of power according to masculinist discourse. Discourse is about the way power is embedded in language … [Read more...] about Safety as a Patriarchal Activity
What Safety Can Learn from William Blake
What Safety Can Learn from William Blake The Social Psychology of Risk is interested in poetics (the study of linguistics and literature) and mimetics (the enactment of imitation). When one is interested in the nature of the unconscious and how humans make decisions one moves away from … [Read more...] about What Safety Can Learn from William Blake
The Curse of Dataism
The Curse of Dataism Beard writes: ‘The scions of Silicon Valley have introduced our world to a new religion of ‘Dataism’. In its extreme form proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms, and believe … [Read more...] about The Curse of Dataism