Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
When you know language matters you don’t to repeat the common discourse that ‘frames’ the Discourse that hides undisclosed assumptions and ideological agenda. I read an AIHS piece about a a so called ‘safety thought leader’ who referred to the skills of Listening, Helping, … Learn more >>>>>
I was with a group of managers yesterday and as I often do asked them to list the words they associate with safety. We brainstorm in teams for a bit and then once each team has 10 words … Learn more >>>>>
Safety is the industry of lower order goals (see Figure 1. Goal States). Safety functions under the false slogan ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. It chooses to ignore a much better aphorism and that is: ‘you can’t … Learn more >>>>>
The following books are all for free download and are the most helpful in learning how to tackle risk. Many are recommended in a study the Social Psychology of Risk .
In SPoR we tend to find … Learn more >>>>>
One of the activities we undertake in the free introduction to the Social Psychology of Risk is to map the operational, emotional and ideological fault lines and tensions in the Industry. In so doing we are able to visualize … Learn more >>>>>
