Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
There are several reasons why Safety in its current state will never deal effectively with mental health:· The mis-definition of culture and,
· The brutalism of zero
The only way to drive for zero is to:
· Suppress reporting (learning)
· Focus on petty risk… Learn more >>>>>
Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright in Safety
One of Dylan’s greatest songs is about the power of indifference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Y3KfJs6T0 ), not just to love but to people in general. There’s nothing quite like the masquerade of care when in reality you don’t give a s&*t.
The clip that captures … Learn more >>>>>
Defining a cult is challenging but in most popular usage is associated with ‘brainwashing’, cultic practices, binary dogma and unusual beliefs. Richardson has a good definition of a cult as: ‘a group that has beliefs and/or practices that are counter to those of the dominant culture’. … Learn more >>>>>
It’s such a laugh, watching people launch a ‘dob in line’ in Australia. We saw this recently with the Government’s ‘dobseeker’ hotline . And we see this approach with regulators and others in Safety , with some weird idea that ‘blowing the whistle’ to un-safety ‘works’. … Learn more >>>>>
I see posts about culture in safety and about ‘safety culture’ often articulated by voices with no expertise in the social sciences, Poetics or culture. Strange this industry that seeks views on culture through the narrow band of engineering, mechanistic disciplines and mechanistic … Learn more >>>>>
