The Safety Control Delusion One of the profound realizations of parenting is that you cannot control your own children. One of the stark realizations of marriage is that you cannot control your partner. Yet, here is Safety pushing all this delusional nonsense about ‘controlling’ others. There is a massive contradiction in the rhetoric of Safety. […]
Social Psychology of Risk
Adverse Events: Eliminate or Anticipate?
Adverse Events: Eliminate or Anticipate? Blog by George Stavrou. Submitted as part of his assessment in Unit 5 of the Diploma in Social Psychology of Risk at The Centre For Leadership and Learning in Risk In an endeavour to assist organisations better manage risk, the safety industry have designed various assessment tools to identify likely sources […]
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Complacency and The Wayward Mind
Complacency and The Wayward Mind The issue of complacency is a preoccupation of the risk and safety industry yet one can find little research in the sector beyond the excessive use of the label. It seems once we have declared something as ‘complacency’ we somehow know what has occurred. Usually complacency is interpreted as laziness, […]
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Risk Culture and Cultural Risk
Risk Culture and Cultural Risk When the risk and safety industry defines culture it doesn’t consider critical aspects of culture. The most common definition is that culture is ‘what we do around here’ which fits in nicely with the behaviourist-cognitivist worldview that dominates the sector. So people in the risk industry role up to training […]
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Zero Suicide and the Discourse of Denial
Zero Suicide and the Discourse of Denial One of the most unhelpful and ignorant approaches to suicide prevention is evidenced in the Zero Suicide movement (https://zerosuicide.sprc.org/ ). We see in this insane delusion with the zero discourse the: denial of death, denial of fallibility, denial of human freedom, the demonsiation of pain and suffering and, […]
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The Advisor as Skilled Helper
The Advisor as Skilled Helper The idea of ‘helping’ is essential to the professions (Susskind & Susskind., The Future of The Professions 2015). However, the absence of the language of ‘helping’ in the safety industry is not surprising. When the goal is zero and the activity is counting where is the motivation for ‘helping’? One’s […]
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There is Nothing more Imaginative We can Do in Safety
There is Nothing more Imaginative We can Do in Safety Imagination is the bedrock of any risk assessment yet the risk industry is so silent about it. When it comes to risk assessment it’s not likely that the things we already know are going to hurt anyone. It is always the unseen risks, the things […]
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Censorship in Safety
Censorship in Safety One doesn’t have to look hard to find censorship in the safety industry. Simply look at what vocabulary and semiotics are available to the industry and what is suppressed and there is the evidence. Similarly, look at the propaganda, smoke and mirrors, taboos and rituals and, censorship is easy to find. For […]
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People are not Rats–Moving Beyond Behaviour Based Safety
Interesting article by Clive Lloyd – first published here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-rats-moving-beyond-behaviour-based-safety-clive-lloyd People are not Rats–Moving Beyond Behaviour Based Safety You are entitled to your opinions – you are not entitled to your own facts! Lately it seems empirical evidence, peer-reviewed research and being guided by experts has given way to mere opinions and (to use the […]
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Risk Boldly
Risk Boldly It’s great to see that the Australians of the Year are adventurers. The idea of adventure and learning in risk is central to all they represent. Even when they were in the midst of their rescue of the boys in the caves in Thailand they expected to lose some or all of the […]
