Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
One of the mythologies created by the safety industry concerns the effectiveness of checklists. Yes, checklists are useful and helpful. The Checklist Manifesto by Gawande is a reasonable read on the positives and negatives of checklists and can be downloaded here: https://www.tribalmind.co/S3/tribalmind-prod/Discoveries/gU31-m5F0E2sviPfDlZrdQ.pdf
However, Gawande only comes at the challenges of … Learn more >>>>>
There are several key factors in the safety industry that mitigate against envisioning and creativity, both are essential for a sense of vision. These are:
· The work of compliance creates compliance thinking
· Checklisting creates checklist thinking
· Regulatory mindfulness quashes open dissent from … Learn more >>>>>
These days I watch a lot of Playschool, a children’s TV program on ABCTV (https://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/sites/playschool/). Playschool is a pre-school education program based entirely on imagination and play. Everything about the show is basic – no fancy props, no expensive sets and adults (usually male and female) enact the … Learn more >>>>>
We learned a few days ago just how much money can be made from a safety checklist. (Meet Australia’s newest unicorn SafetyCulture and Billion dollar milestone: SafetyCulture Australia’s newest unicorn )
If anyone ever doubted ‘the seduction of the box’ mentalitie in Safety (https://safetyrisk.net/the-seduction-of-the-box-and-semiotic-visualisation/ ), here is the … Learn more >>>>>
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My favourite line: “Finally, we could spend a bit more time with our little kids and start practicing a way of thinking we have devalued for far too long and bring some fun back into making sense of risk.”
