What is a Safety and Risk ‘Thinking Group’? When we take time out to critically think through, and challenge, the ‘norm’ in risk and safety, we open up our eyes, and importantly our minds, to new thinking and innovation when we use our imagination to better discern risk In my last post Some … [Read more...] about What is a Safety and Risk ‘Thinking Group’?
Social Psychology of Risk
Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk I’ve been on a cracker of a journey for about two years now since I discovered social psychology and all that it brings to the area of risk and safety. I’ve discovered how much I don’t know, how much I thought I knew but didn’t, and most wonderfully, how … [Read more...] about Some Basics on Social Psychology & Risk
October 2024 Quarterly Newsletter
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Semiotics and Safety
Semiotics and Safety I read with interest a conference proposed for November 2014 entitled ‘Beyond Zero Harm, Human Factors Safety’. The subtitle of the conference is ‘Humanising impacts in safety operations to reengineer safety approach for enhanced productivity and business profitability’. Oh … [Read more...] about Semiotics and Safety
Phenomenology: Appearance and Reality
By Simon Renatus Phenomenology[i] challenges traditional distinctions between appearance and reality by proposing that phenomena reveal reality directly. Rather than searching for a hidden truth behind appearances, phenomenology asserts that reality is embedded in how the world presents itself to … [Read more...] about Phenomenology: Appearance and Reality
The Phenomena of Risk Series
By Simon Renatus Sunday, 6 October 2024 12:35 PM I knew what they were looking for. “That’s very interesting, Simon, but it’s not what we’re after. We encourage e play, but the procedure clearly specifies an ICAM for this kind of incident, so can you please rework it in the correct form by close … [Read more...] about The Phenomena of Risk Series
Forecasting Safety
Here’s the challenge for anyone who holds to the mantra ‘all accidents are preventable’. Ask them to predict how long it will be in their organisation or any organisation for that matter, that they will be harm free. Hopefully they will go to their injury data and based on the history of injury at … [Read more...] about Forecasting Safety
Its all About Behaviours
Its all About Behaviours I'd like a dollar for every time I get asked if do programs on 'behaviours'. Oh, doesn't safety love behaviours. I often get asked this question by people who want to control the behaviour of others. It is amazing how attractive behaviourism is to the safety industry. … [Read more...] about Its all About Behaviours
SPoR Workshops in Vancouver, Calgary (Canada) London, Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
For those wanting to study SPoR face-to-face in: Vancouver, Calgary (Canada) London, Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) we are excited to announce that Dr Nippin Anand and Dr Pedro Ferreira will be there soon. You can see the times, places and register for these events … [Read more...] about SPoR Workshops in Vancouver, Calgary (Canada) London, Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War?
Introducing our latest awesome Author: James Ellis from The Framework Group Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War? Every day we make decisions based on insufficient information, informed by our biases and shortcuts, which ironically, we’re also ignorant to. Even in the … [Read more...] about Is Choice The First Casualty in the Worker’s Compensation War?