Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
Anthony Burgess
Most global corporate behemoths, especially American transnationals with militaristic command and control organisational structures are advocates of behaviourism. … Learn more >>>>>
What limits Safety in innovation, creativity, ideas and vision are the upshifting ideologies of behaviourism/positivism. Whatever slogans one is attracted to, checklists one completes, or how much one repeats the word ‘differently’, how many podcasts one listens to or … Learn more >>>>>
One of the delusions of Behaviourism is that guilt and punitive consequence are motivational. The opposite is the case.
There is endless research to demonstrate that the assumptions of Behaviourism don’t work. It’s quite straightforward: humans are not machines and not the sum of inputs … Learn more >>>>>
The number of emails I get about people getting the sack for minor safety breeches staggers me. Such actions are often accompanied by language like ‘that will teach them a lesson’ or ‘now people will know we are serious about safety’.
Of course, such language is delusional and there is … Learn more >>>>>
It’s fascinating and entertaining to watch Safety manipulate the discipline of neuroscience to suit its own behaviourist worldview. Even more fascinating to watch Safety, with no expertise in neuroscience, bend this discipline to behaviourist outcomes then claim that it has moved on from behaviourism. Then further … Learn more >>>>>
