Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
The Beaconsfield Mine Collapse (https://safetyrisk.net/the-beaconsfield-leadership-workshop/) traumatised many in the mining community, not just those who worked at the Mine. For some in the Mine who had experienced similar events on the West Coast of Tasmania (eg. Renison https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-09/two-mine-workers-killed-in-mt-lyell-accident/5144308?nw=0) the trauma was critical.… Learn more >>>>>
In Australia, we have this saying to try to explain why someone does something that doesn’t make sense, we call it a ‘brain fart’. It is a way of people accepting that someone did something that didn’t make rational sense and was out … Learn more >>>>>
If you are a follower of this blog you will know that we have often discussed the way safety and marketing go for crazy promotions to get people into safety. In the past we have discussed: Dumb Ways to Die, Hazardman, Sexy Sophie… Learn more >>>>>
I have written previously as far back as 2015 about the dangers of common sense language:
It seems that Safety has little cognizance of the dangerous by-products of much of its silly language nor the trajectory … Learn more >>>>>
One of the beauties of fallibility is what Alan Watts called The Wisdom of Insecurity . Watts describes how binary worldviews create fear and dogma, making people frightened and concocting securities that don’t exist. Watts thinking helps one step out of the binary worldview … Learn more >>>>>
