There is little doubt that Safety=Zero is a cult (https://safetyrisk.net/the-cult-ure-of-zero/). As I looked at the documentary Escaping Utopia (documenting the Gloryvale cult in NZ (https://iview.abc.net.au/show/escaping-utopia) I saw such similarities in the Indoctrination of … [Read more...] about How to Escape the Safety=Zero Cult
cognitive dissonance
Change in Safety and Cognitive Dissonance
It is rare that any change or shift in worldview comes without discomfort and Cognitive Dissonance. Cognitive Dissonance is more than just discomfort and, invokes a threat to identity, belonging and worldview. Cognitive Dissonance was first explained by Leon Festinger. Festinger (1919-1989) is a … [Read more...] about Change in Safety and Cognitive Dissonance
Safety Career Highlight
Safety Career Highlight The experience I had yesterday was a very special moment in my career and life and I’m still buzzing. I had the incredible honour of speaking at the launch of the new book Following-Leading in Risk by Dr Robert Long and Craig Ashhurst. The lead up to the event was a … [Read more...] about Safety Career Highlight
Risk and Safety Starts with Being?
The key to sensemaking is not the question why but the question who. The question why looks for reasons, the question what looks for objects, the question where looks for space and place, the question when looks at time, the question how looks for method but, the question who searches for being. The … [Read more...] about Risk and Safety Starts with Being?
Humanising Workplace Health and Safety Management
Humanising Workplace Health and Safety Management Well who would have thought……….Safe Work Australia invited Dr Rob Long to take part in this ‘radical’ safety seminar – I am sure it would have created a good deal of cognitive dissonance for some of their regular listeners!! Summary of the seminar, … [Read more...] about Humanising Workplace Health and Safety Management
Suffering – Sometimes There Is No Reason
Suffering - Sometimes There Is No Reason In general when a puzzle sits in front of safety, it must solve it and in safety all problem solving is deemed good. There is little talk of faith, sustaining contradiction, suffering, uncertainty, paradox, wisdom, discerning or doubt when one must find a … [Read more...] about Suffering – Sometimes There Is No Reason
Impacts of Cognitive Dissonance in the Workplace
Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (CD) describes a condition of stress, or a feeling of internal discomfort caused by conflicting ideas, values, beliefs or practices. Essentially, this is a situation where two or more opposing thoughts are causing psychological discomfort. Humans have an inner drive to … [Read more...] about Impacts of Cognitive Dissonance in the Workplace
Cognitive Dissonance and Safety Beliefs
Cognitive Dissonance and Safety Beliefs Whenever we run the Introduction to the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) Module (https://cllr.com.au/product/an-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk-unit-1-free-online-module/ ) we always struggle at the start with the suspension of belief, … [Read more...] about Cognitive Dissonance and Safety Beliefs
Best Fraud in Safety Wins, ‘This is the Way’
The first lie started when my flight was changed due to ‘traffic control concerns’, hmmm, my travel partner (Matt) was on the same flight??? We were going to meet in Sydney and travel together to Vienna. Strange, his flight was not changed? So, I contacted Qantas and asked why his flight (the … [Read more...] about Best Fraud in Safety Wins, ‘This is the Way’
In Praise of In-Between Thinking in Risk and Safety
In Praise of In-Between Thinking in Risk and Safety As much as Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast and Slow is helpful, it also sustains the idea that the human mind operates in a binary paradigm. As much as Ariely’s book Logically Irrational helps people understand the nature of human decision making, … [Read more...] about In Praise of In-Between Thinking in Risk and Safety