The Doctrine of Atonement for Safety People I was sent this one from a safety conference this week and just couldn’t pass up a comment on its absurdity. First of all Safety saves no-one and the language of salvation belongs elsewhere not at a safety conference (and people wonder why I present Safety as a […]
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I am a Spreadsheet King
I am a Spreadsheet King I have had numerous conversations with safety people this week who lament the amount of time they have to spend doing spreadsheets reporting on everything from injury rates, TRIFR, near miss etc. One a GM of a tier 1 organisation tells me he hasn’t had time to walk the floor […]
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Understanding Safety as an Archetype
Understanding Safety as an Archetype We all accept the idea of archetypes in our language and speech everyday. We often talk about how Love won through and how the Market behaves. We talk about the condition of the Economy and how ‘Hope springs eternal’ (Pope 1734). We talk about what Society does and we personify […]
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What or Who Is Safety?
What or Who Is Safety? I am surprised by the number of people who come to this site from Google after searching for “what is safety”? Perhaps they have just been told that it is a No1 priority or a value or they have to manage it, train it, audit it, measure it, do it, […]
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Innocence and Justice in Safety
Innocence and Justice in Safety Jung rightly names Safety as the archetype of innocence . Innocence is linked to the quest for justice and purity, zero harm. The ideology of zero harm endorses the archetype of the innocence-safety discourse, a sign of immaturity. The quest for perfection believes in the ultimate justice that perfection is […]
