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April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Desensitization, Statistics and the Psychic Numbing of Numerics

One of the lessons Safety continually doesn’t learn is that numerics, metrics and statistics desensitize people to caring. This is known as psychic numbing and has been well researched by Slovic and others (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283318445_The_More_Who_Die_the_Less_We_Care_Psychic_Numbing_and_Genocide). At the moment our TVs and… Read the rest

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

Safety Whack-A-Mole… Blindfolded

by Jason Maldonado Sorry, Jason. She’s going to need bed rest!!!! I’d been sitting in a crowded waiting room for hours with Julie, one of the executive assistants on my project. Julie was a sweet woman with a mean streak.… Read the rest

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019

Quantifying the Unquantifiable

In every workshop I conduct the issue of measures, a STEM view of evidence and ‘controls’ are always raised. This week was no exception. I find it so amusing that the industry has this fixation with measures in working life… Read the rest

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019

People and Safety

When we look at people as people and not as a number, we will start to see them as people that are doing the same, thing we are doing. Supporting a family and making a living. Since we are all… Read the rest

November 9, 2019November 9, 2019

Haters gonna hate…….

When you are surrounded by Safety methodology it’s sometimes hard to believe that 2020 is almost upon us. A well intentioned “safety professional”, from a multinational building materials company, just proudly posted this image on Linkedin. Despite what the sign… Read the rest