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Advancing Backwards in Safety

December 30, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

I had a call from a mate this week, the board of his company have been mesmerised by a presentation of the latest advances in safety. So I asked to see a copy of this presentation expecting some astounding research and scintillating stuff taking safety into the future. So what did I see? Bradley … [Read more...] about Advancing Backwards in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: 1% safer, Bradley Curve, culture, heinrich, one percent safer, safety models, transdisciplinarity

Could Understanding Grey Be The Silver Bullet

December 1, 2022 by Rob Sams 20 Comments

Could understanding Grey, be the ‘silver bullet’? Since I started writing on Safetyrisk.net in November 2013, I’ve received lots of great feedback thoughts, questions and even criticisms about my posts which I appreciate. A key theme of the feedback that I receive is that some of the concepts … [Read more...] about Could Understanding Grey Be The Silver Bullet

Filed Under: Risk Assessment, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: 1% safer, by-products, one percent safer, ppe, risk assessment, silver bullet, trade-offs, weick

Zero Survey Update

November 13, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

We first launched the Zero Survey 2 years ago and safety people have been steadily responding to it. You can respond here: https://spor.com.au/zero-vision-survey/ We reported findings of the survey after one day (https://safetyrisk.net/first-report-on-zero-survey/) and since then with more than … [Read more...] about Zero Survey Update

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: 1% safer, vision zero, zero vision

Are You a One Percenter?

October 17, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Are You a One Percenter? Every so often I get a call or visit from a GM of a global or National organization and we chat about research and latest trends in safety. Today was one of those days with a GM of the largest logistics company in Australia. We chatted about what the safety world says … [Read more...] about Are You a One Percenter?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: 1% safer, one percent safer

Understanding Safety Myths

July 20, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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Understanding Safety Myths The term ‘mythology’ is not understood well and is associated with the idea of legend/fairy tale but that’s not its meaning. It is certainly not how myth is defined in social psychology. Mythology is really a set of beliefs supported by semiotics (symbol systems) and … [Read more...] about Understanding Safety Myths

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Myths, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: 1% safer, safety mythology, safety myths, STEM

Wisdom Based Safety

July 14, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 14 Comments

In a appreciative response to a blog on A Philosophy of Safety  John Phillips used the phrase ‘Wisdom-Based Safety ‘(WBS), what a wonderful expression. What a delightful expression and far better than the brutalism of BBS. More on WBS later. There are two most profound indictments of the … [Read more...] about Wisdom Based Safety

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Ethics, Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, archetype, Archetypes, one percent safer, safety archetype, wisdom based safety

Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know

June 1, 2022 by Admin 48 Comments

Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know Republished by request  Here are 10 and a bit things about safety that I plucked from some recent blog posts, that singularly or collectively only a handful of people may know. Or, if they knew them, perhaps did not know … [Read more...] about Top 10 Things About Safety and Risk That Only a Handful of People Know

Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Risk Homeostasis, Semiotics, Workplace Safety Tagged With: 1% safer, one percent safer, Safety, Zero Harm

Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth

April 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth The language of ‘performance’ in safety has over time, been decoupled from its real meaning. How humans ‘perform’ has been commandeered by behaviourism and scientism in safety by the meaningless pursuit of measurement. We see this typically in the … [Read more...] about Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth

Filed Under: 1% safer, Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, complacency, fallibility, neuroscience, performance, safety differently, technique

Ends and Means in Safety

May 15, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Ends and Means in Safety As long as what I do gets a safety outcome, it doesn’t matter what I do to get it. This is the declared philosophy of safety ‘ends justifies the means’ ideology. As long as the outcome is zero the means to get it doesn’t matter. Wrong! The ends never justify the … [Read more...] about Ends and Means in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, AIHS BoK on Ethics

The Fallacy of Marginal Gains and Nudges

March 28, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Fallacy of Marginal Gains and Nudges One of the characteristics of safety marketing is the continual clutching at straws to motivate and move people towards safety. We see this in the endless campaigns for: pickles, Mums for Safety, Hazardman, meerkats, sexy sofie etc.. It seems anything is … [Read more...] about The Fallacy of Marginal Gains and Nudges

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