Psychology of Safety and Risk

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020

A Letter To The Editor

Dear SafetyRisk, It all started with a number. The number Zero. After working 10 years in the safety business, putting everything I had learnt into practice, I started to feel unmotivated - it just didn't make sense. I felt that… Read the rest

May 25, 2020May 25, 2020

Bad Moon Rising

How can you prevent harm when risk is essential for human action? I read with interest the update on the World Congress XXII in Safety set for Toronto for October 2020 . The focus on the publication is prevention, with… Read the rest

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020

The Attraction of Simple and Easy in Safety

I was reading yesterday where someone is suggesting that culture is structure. Of course isn’t. Neither is culture just behaviours, values, systems, organising or beliefs. Culture is much more than all of these, combined. The reason why we read about… Read the rest

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

Sergeant Safety

Guest Poem by Sergeant Safety Standing to attention, only receiving disdain, Telling, Yelling, Commanding, this is not a game. Feeble excuses to my ears, lame, Those that don’t obey must desire pain. Salute me and my presumed rank, A status… Read the rest

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

When Slogans Don’t Work

One of the many slogans that have been circulated about during the Covid-19 crisis is: ‘we’re all in this together’. In an interesting take on this slogan (https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/no-we-re-not-all-in-this-together-20200505-p54q0p.html) we learn much about the power of slogans themselves and the ideology… Read the rest

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