Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Recent research shows that vision impairment is related to death rate (https://neurosciencenews.com/mortality-visual-impairment-17960/). So if you say you spruik zero, then better get out your glasses.
I wrote all about the nature of vision in my latest book: Envisioning Risk, … Learn more >>>>>
In the latest IOSH magazine you can find a host of safety gobbledygook , enough to turn you off an industry consumed with itself.
We know about zero vision but did you know that a career in safety makes you an education expert? Apparently so.
Wonderful … Learn more >>>>>
People refer to critical thinking but rarely define what they mean. People may think they are critical thinkers but are often constrained by ambitions, politics, debt and social structures. In the world of risk and safety where compliance rules and obedience is privileged over all, critical thinking is generally discouraged.… Learn more >>>>>
Safety seems to avoid the most important things when thinking about tackling risk. There seems to be no interest in safety in the nature of the human unconscious nor any interest in anything outside of a narrow worldview that constructs humans-as-brains-on-bodies and cognition as brain-work. The assumptions of materialist behaviourism … Learn more >>>>>
Few people hold a working manual beside them as they learn a new process. They might consult that manual but the moment their eyes leave the paper/screen and they look at the action needed a host of critical factors come into play in enacting a decision. Many of these critical … Learn more >>>>>
