Sucking on the Same Old Safety Bottle I see posts about culture in safety and about ‘safety culture’ often articulated by voices with no expertise in the social sciences, Poetics or culture. Strange this industry that seeks views on culture through the narrow band of engineering, mechanistic … [Read more...] about Sucking on the Same Old Safety Bottle
AIHS BoK
Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety
Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety Wise sayings are all about living and being (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wise-sayings) and mostly don’t provide answers. If you are stressed out, lonely, frazzled or confused: go for a walk, say hello, coffee with someone, smell the flowers or take in a … [Read more...] about Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety
Causation Concoctions
The AIHS Bok on Causation commences with the following: ‘If safety management is effective, then there should be an absence of accidents. Conversely, if accidents are occurring then effective safety management must be absent’ (p.1). The assumptions in these statements are of course not declared in … [Read more...] about Causation Concoctions
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 such simplistic projections on culture in safety … [Read more...] about The Attraction of Simple and Easy in Safety
The Common Sense Fallacy
We hear it all the time, this call for ‘common sense’: · https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6690707/time-for-common-sense-approach-to-covid-19/ · https://www.newsport.com.au/2020/march/coronavirus-facts-common-sense-and-compliance/ · … [Read more...] about The Common Sense Fallacy