Safety Aphorisms and Platitudes Someone recently posted a photo of an old safety sign from NC Transport Museum on LinkedIn. Its a great find of an interesting artefact. I am not sure how old it is and it was probably considered to be amazingly insightful in its day. We often laugh at these very … [Read more...] about Safety Aphorisms and Platitudes
Social Psychology of Risk
Understanding e-motion, Motivation, Goals and Learning in Risk – A Video
Behaviourism as a philosophy and methodology doesn’t explain why people do what they do. It is a simplistic ideology that defines persons as machines and the sum of inputs and outputs. This is not why people do what they do. Positive and negative reinforcement have a very short shelf life in … [Read more...] about Understanding e-motion, Motivation, Goals and Learning in Risk – A Video
Free Download – Audiobook, Risk Makes Sense
We have decided to release for free download, our second audiobook here >>>>> Risk Makes Sense, Human Judgment and Risk This is in addition to our other audiobook with Greg Smith and Dr Craig Ashhurst, Risk Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology and Risk: … [Read more...] about Free Download – Audiobook, Risk Makes Sense
Situational Awareness. What Are Your Filters?
We see the world and situations through the many biases (filters) developed through years of the way the world has been framed at us. In safety, the training, curriculum, discourse, language and semiosis is framed through the filter and lens of objects. Even psychosocial harm is called a ’hazard’. … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness. What Are Your Filters?
Situational Awareness as Consciousness of the Unconscious
Situational awareness is in some ways about ‘reading’ and ‘sensing’ the unknown but how can that make sense? Isn’t that a paradox? Yes, it is but in SPoR many things are held in paradoxical tension. Such is life. Situational awareness is about a ‘sixth sense’ of knowing well beyond any thinking … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness as Consciousness of the Unconscious
Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour
Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour Artists, marketers and advertisers (https://www.helpscout.net/blog/psychology-of-color/ ), fashion designers, graphic and instructional designers, supermarkets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9UPy04WMs ), therapists … [Read more...] about Risk and Safety Matrices and the Psychology of Colour
Why Safety Controls Don’t Always Work
Why Safety Controls Don’t Always Work The Way We Expect Thanks to John Wettstein from Safety Strategies for sending this photo in. Wilde’s theory of Risk Homeostasis tells us that all people have their own target level of risk. They will adjust their behaviour based on their own perception of … [Read more...] about Why Safety Controls Don’t Always Work
Heinrich’s Alternate Reality
Amongst all the concoctions of Heinrich the most amusing is his denial of reality. You can read Heinrich for yourself here: … [Read more...] about Heinrich’s Alternate Reality
There is no way I would do that!
There is no way I would do that! The impact of social arrangements on our decisions and judgments I had the privilege last week of meeting a new group of people as they commenced their adventure into the world of better understanding people and how we make decisions and judgments about risk. I … [Read more...] about There is no way I would do that!
If you truly believe in zero it will happen
If you truly believe in zero it will happen - Safety as Faith Healing Guest post by Dr Rob Long The logic of faith healing is quite simple: believe in something and if you truly believe and believe enough it will happen. If it doesn’t happen then you don’t believe enough - a wonderful get out … [Read more...] about If you truly believe in zero it will happen