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Culture, Toxicity and Safety

June 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

Culture, Toxicity and Safety There are several reasons why Safety in its current state will never deal effectively with mental health: · The mis-definition of culture and, · The brutalism of zero The only way to drive for zero is to: · Suppress reporting (learning) · Focus on petty risk · … [Read more...] about Culture, Toxicity and Safety

Filed Under: Mental health, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Culture, Zero Harm Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, mental health, safety archetype

Wisdom Based Safety

June 16, 2023 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

Innocence and Justice in Safety

June 14, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...] about Innocence and Justice in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: archetype, innocence, Zero Harm

Expertise by Regurgitation and Re-Badging

May 16, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 15 Comments

One of the fascinating things about the Coronavirus pandemic is watching Safety morph into epidemiology expertise. I would like a dollar for every flyer, presentation, podcast, powerpoint, checklist template, toolbox talk and poster set that had jumped into my inbox on a daily basis in the last … [Read more...] about Expertise by Regurgitation and Re-Badging

Filed Under: Covid-19, Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, coronavirus

Understanding Safety as an Archetype

July 29, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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 Evil and Good. This … [Read more...] about Understanding Safety as an Archetype

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, safety archetype

Safety People Don’t ‘Save Lives’

July 13, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

The naivety and delusions of the safety industry know no bounds as is evident by this language that surfaces at safety conferences about how safety ‘saves lives’. An example is below. Such language should not be part of safety discourse and certainly endorses the many articles on this blog site … [Read more...] about Safety People Don’t ‘Save Lives’

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, safety archetype, save lives

Affirming Chance

July 7, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

My apologies for the perhaps heavy nature of the following blog but serves as a follow up to the previous on Innocence and Justice in Safety (https://www.safetyrisk.net/innocence-and-justice-in-safety/). So lets follow up the piece on Justice and innocence by a quote from Deleuze. Deleuze … [Read more...] about Affirming Chance

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, chance, safety archetype

You Don’t Really Want to Learn in Risk, Do You?

March 20, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

You Don’t Really Want to Learn in Risk, Do You? I get contacted all the time by organizations who state they want to learn, particularly about a different way to tackle risk that works. Then when we first make contact it eventuates that they don’t really want to learn and certainly are not ‘ready’ … [Read more...] about You Don’t Really Want to Learn in Risk, Do You?

Filed Under: Learning, Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, cognitive dissonance, learning, safety archetype

Safety Fraudulence

January 30, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Safety Fraudulence What do you do when you have no ethic of risk? You make sh#t up. I was sent a marketing video this week from the National Safety Council (NSC) claiming they had ‘saved 7 million lives’. In the same ideology as ‘safety saves’, we see in this a complete delusion about … [Read more...] about Safety Fraudulence

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, fraudulent claims, national safety council, safety archetype

Meeting is NOT About Technique

January 16, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Meeting is NOT About Technique I have received an amazing amount of feedback on my piece on Meeting (https://safetyrisk.net/meeting-in-safety-with-no-meeting/ ). So, this blog seeks to extend the discussion a little further. Ellul’s notion of Technique proposes that any quest for efficiency in … [Read more...] about Meeting is NOT About Technique

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, human factors, iCue, meeting, safety archetype, technique

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