The best way to understand HOP is to see how HOP describes itself. Examine the language of the following: https://blog.intelex.com/2021/07/27/the-5-basic-principles-of-hop-human-and-organizational-performance/ The premise of HOP is the idea that human error is inevitable so perhaps … [Read more...] about HOP is Traditional Safety
Robert Long
Defining Safety by the Absence of Accidents, Injury and Harm
When you run a traditional safety movement off the back of 5 slogans with no articulated methodology or ethic, you’re bound to run into problems. For example: the slogan ‘when nothing happens, a lot is happening’, defines safety by the absence of accidents, injury, harm and error. This is just … [Read more...] about Defining Safety by the Absence of Accidents, Injury and Harm
Visual and Verbal Mapping of Risk in SPoR
One of the methods of SPoR is visual and verbal mapping. We call this method iCue© (https://safetyrisk.net/beginner-intermediate-and-advanced-icue-skills/) and it is being successfully implemented around the globe in many organisations. In our book It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety … [Read more...] about Visual and Verbal Mapping of Risk in SPoR
Making Nothing Happen in Safety
One of the slogans of HOP is: ‘when nothing happens, a lot is happening’. Of course, the language of this discourse doesn’t make sense unless one is initiated in the discourse of HOP. But when nothing happens, nothing happens, that’s the sense of the language. This kind of language is just HOP code … [Read more...] about Making Nothing Happen in Safety
Understanding the Nature of Performance and HOP
The best way to understand the nature of performance is NOT through safety or business studies. The modern interpretation of performance through the lens of safety and business studies is mechanistic, behaviourist and a total distraction from a real understanding of performance. If we go back to … [Read more...] about Understanding the Nature of Performance and HOP
Forecasting Safety
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
If You Want to Know About Mental Health, Don’t Ask Safety
I see with no surprise, Safety suggesting a re-think on mental health. Yet again, this confirms the simple reality that Safety loves to talk to itself about what it doesn’t know. If you want to know about Ethics, Culture or Anthropology, ask a safety engineer. Didn’t you know, if you need a source … [Read more...] about If You Want to Know About Mental Health, Don’t Ask Safety
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
The Human Safety Newsletter is Out
Human Dymensions Newsletter 2014 Quarterly Newsletter If you are over boring safety newsletters about legislation updates, recent fines and the latest PPE flooding your inbox then here is a Safety Newsletter worth reading. You can subscribe here: http://www.humandymensions.com/mailing-list … [Read more...] about The Human Safety Newsletter is Out
I Wasn’t Thinking Mr Spock
I Wasn’t Thinking Mr Spock “We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don’t reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn’t work and something goes wrong” So much of … [Read more...] about I Wasn’t Thinking Mr Spock