No Hope for Safety One of the fascinating things about culture in safety is an extraordinary satisfaction with a lack of definition and a phenomenal acceptance of assumptions about critical issues. For example, you won’t find discussion anywhere in safety about the nature of Hope, nor the nature of Faith for that matter. This is […]
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Safety Surveying What You Already Know
Safety Surveying What You Already Know I received a post this week from someone who had conducted the typical orthodox safety survey. There are many such surveys on the market, all infused with STEM-only assumptions about materialist-rationalist safety. As I looked through the survey results and analysis there was nothing stated or measured that organisations […]
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Do We Only Get One Shot At a First Impression?
Do We Only Get One Shot At a First Impression? By Matt Thorne from Risk Diversity See Matt’s previous article: ‘Paper Systems’ and Safety Management Systems First impressions are often the worst impressions but need not be so. However, once and bad impression is made, it is nearly impossible to retract it. Surely in the area […]
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Safety as Policing
Safety as Policing One of the principle factors recognized by the World Congress on Safety 2017 was the problem of ‘safety as policing’. The Congress recognized that the strategy of ‘policing’ doesn’t work and is ineffective (p.10). It states: ‘The OHS Professional’s role should be reconceptualized as a continuous improvement expert … as opposed to […]
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Two New Free Training Videos on Culture and The Cultural Values Framework
Two New Free Training Videos on Culture and The Cultural Values Framework The MiProfile Diagnostic (https://vimeo.com/24764673) is globally one of the most effective tools available to provide feedback to organisations on culture, risk and learning. This is because MiProfile tests implicit (tacit) knowledge (Polanyi) and the methodology is copyright to Dr Long. The MiProfile data […]
