Psychology of Safety and Risk

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

Bridging the Disciplines for Better Outcomes

One of the challenges of a closed knowledge culture is that such will not help us meet the needs of the future. Whether one understands intractable complexity as a ‘wicked problem’ or just complexity there is no doubt that the… Read the rest

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020

Ethics, Morality and an Ethic of Risk

It is important to know the difference between Ethics, Morality, Virtue and an Ethic. · An Ethic is a methodology (philosophy/ontology) that drives a method. · Ethics encompass the study of that Ethic and its outworking in morality. · A… Read the rest

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

Holistic Ergonomics

Orthodox ergonomics has a focus on objects and how humans interact with objects. The classic text for orthodox ergonomics is Fitting the Task to The Human by Kroemer and Grandjean. Orthodox ergonomics is framed by a STEM-only worldview and looks… Read the rest

December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

Risk You Can Eat

The risk and safety industry just continues to get more absurd as it ventures into conceptual metaphor of eating and diet as it seek to make sense of the unquantifiable nature of risk (https://safetyrisk.net/quantifying-the-unquantifiable/). Then the industry goes into complete… Read the rest

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

Safetie

Sometimes in order to think differently we need a new language, semantics, grammar and semiotics. This has been acknowledged in social psychology for some time. This is how Derrida and Deluze make a point about difference (https://monoskop.org/images/8/84/Derrida_Jacques_Writing_and_Difference_1978.pdf). Sometimes a new… Read the rest