Zero has been the open religious mantra for safety for 7 years. The evidence for this cult is beyond debate (https://safetyrisk.net/if-you-want-to-know-about-culture-dont-start-with-safety/). The evidence for its support is overwhelming (https://safetyrisk.net/the-sponsors-of-zero-are/) especially … [Read more...] about Safety=Zero Culture
Safety Culture
The Culture of Safety
The word ‘culture’ has an agri-cultural origin and extends back thousands of years. We all accept the language and notion of agriculture as it denotes growing and living on the land. Before written text there are extensive semiotic and oral representations for the ethos of activity in and on the … [Read more...] about The Culture of Safety
If You Want to Know About Culture, Don’t Start With Safety
Safety is a mono-disciplinary endeavour, anchored to the philosophies of Rationalism, Positivism and Behaviourism. If you seek out knowledge from this industry, that’s the methodology that generates all that follows. The method that follows has been the same in safety since 1931. These dominant … [Read more...] about If You Want to Know About Culture, Don’t Start With Safety
The Culture Paradox
10 Minutes on the culture paradox in safety and risk, and why tackling that paradox is so tricky for organisations. The Culture Paradox from Dave Whitefield on Vimeo. … [Read more...] about The Culture Paradox
Culture is NOT a Construct
One of the most important things to know about culture is that it is beyond definition, proposition and mechanistic thinking. One can’t control, define or ‘engineer’ culture as if it is a ‘thing’. Indeed, this is one of the characteristics of discourse in safety about culture, usually coming from … [Read more...] about Culture is NOT a Construct
Why good leaders make you feel safe
Why good leaders make you feel safe A safe organisation is definitely not one that relies on rules, punishment, reporting, systems, procedures, checklists, injury measurement, hazard control, authority, error elimination and Zero Harm – how dare anybody call that “Culture”. Feeling safe and being … [Read more...] about Why good leaders make you feel safe
Say the Magic Word ‘Culture’ and the Seduction of Ignorance
I have been sent several promos from safety recently about how Safety promotes culture. All of it is sourced with no expertise in culture and projected by sources qualified in engineering. All of it is propositional and framed in formula for ‘fixing’ culture that amounts to nothing more than word … [Read more...] about Say the Magic Word ‘Culture’ and the Seduction of Ignorance
Safety Futurism
We would love to hear about recent, classic examples of “futuristic safety discourse” you have come across – please share them in the comments below – latest I saw was: “The brain science of optimal safety using the Zero Incident Process (ZIP)” – thanks, Dave Safety Futurism Article by Dr Rob Long … [Read more...] about Safety Futurism
Safety Communication
Safety Communication A couple of extracts from recent posts on the Workplace Communicator Blog which are really worth sharing: Are poor safety habits holding back your safety culture progression? Posted by Marie-Claire Ross on Sun, May 11, 2014 If you've ever felt that a lot of your friends or … [Read more...] about Safety Communication
Imagination and Safety
Imagination? We’ll Soon Knock that Nonsense Out of You A safety friend of mind Ted rang the other day, he had just gone through the circus and charade of an OFSC Audit and 4801 Audit. He said, ‘ah, now we are safe’, I said, ‘no your not, you are probably less safe’. (I’ll get back to this point … [Read more...] about Imagination and Safety