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Organisations are Social Institutions

June 29, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Organisations are Social Institutions I saw a meme the other day from the safety sphere that stated: ‘We, all of us, are just one new executive away from having to start again at the very beginning’. Of course, this is utter nonsense. The idea that ‘we’ (the organized) are shaped by the shifting of … [Read more...] about Organisations are Social Institutions

Filed Under: Just Culture, Robert Long, Safety Differently Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, just culture, safety archetype, weick

The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate How Many Angels Can Dance on a Pinhead? Introduction Let me first acknowledge that I do not find any ranking of safety such as S1 or S2 helpful, so I try to avoid such language and will do my best to avoid it in this paper. Indeed, ranking language in safety is … [Read more...] about The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, neuroscience, safety archetype, safety differently, safety models, traditional safety

Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious An essential in understanding culture is understanding shared consciousness and shared unconsciousness. The work of Jung charted the frontier in understanding the Collective Unconscious (https://www.are.na/block/1493356 ). What Jung discovered … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Safety Culture Silences, Unconscious Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, collective unconscious, memes, safety archetype

Safety Silences – Video Series

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Safety Silences - Video Series We get asked so often about various topics and ideas that are never discussed in traditional safety (including ‘safety differently’) so, we decided to start a video series called ‘Safety Silences’. The purpose of this video series is to discuss topics that seem to be … [Read more...] about Safety Silences – Video Series

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Silences, Safety Differently, Safety Videos Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, safety archetype, safety silences

Listening to the Symbols of Christmas

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Listening to the Symbols of Christmas A good way to discern what someone is talking about is to listen to their language, words spoken and unspoken. If someone is talking about ‘learning’ or ‘culture’ and doesn’t speak about embodiment, the unconscious, mystery, wisdom, symbolism, mythology, … [Read more...] about Listening to the Symbols of Christmas

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, language, safety archetype, symbols

Safety Culture Surveys

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Safety Culture Surveys If you do a search for ‘safety culture survey’ on Google it gets 2,720,000,000 results, a sure sign of an industry that thinks it knows what culture is and how to change it. Of course, the institutionalisation of the charisma … [Read more...] about Safety Culture Surveys

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: AIHS BoK, archetype, Archetypes, culture surveys, safety archetype

The Best Options in Safety Are Not Always Efficient

June 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The Best Options in Safety Are Not Always Efficient One of the great French Philosophers was Jacques Ellul (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul ; https://ellul.org/) a person well before his time. Ellul developed the idea that the quest for efficient outcome leaves damaging by-products and … [Read more...] about The Best Options in Safety Are Not Always Efficient

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, efficiency, propaganda, safety archetype

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

You are NOT the Sum of Safety

May 21, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I find it comical all these people who think they are Safety. How strange this industry that ‘anchors’ someone so hard to an Archetype as a persona (Jung) that one thinks a criticism of safety is a criticism of them. How peculiar. Even the most fundamental understanding of linguistics and grammar … [Read more...] about You are NOT the Sum of Safety

Filed Under: Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Archetypes

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