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Complacency, Consciousness and Error in Safety

September 8, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Recent research into the effects of drugs like Psilocybin, an ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms’ show some promise in helping with addictions and some mental health disorders. And yet, even then, researchers still don’t understand much about consciousness and the unconscious, and use the language of … [Read more...] about Complacency, Consciousness and Error in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: complacency, neuroscience

The Complacency Myth

September 1, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Continuing our series on Safety Myths – see them all here Like all unethical myths, the myth of complacency is perhaps one of the worst. The language of complacency is rife in the safety industry and is premised on the nonsense idea that people desire self-harm. This myth is based on the nonsense … [Read more...] about The Complacency Myth

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Safety Myths Tagged With: complacency

Complacency and The Wayward Mind

August 27, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Complacency and The Wayward Mind The issue of complacency is a preoccupation of the risk and safety industry yet one can find little research in the sector beyond the excessive use of the label. It seems once we have declared something as ‘complacency’ we somehow know what has occurred. Usually … [Read more...] about Complacency and The Wayward Mind

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: complacency, Wayward Mind

The ASSP Getting Complacency Completely Wrong

July 20, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

Editors Note: They’ve also gotten it very wrong before, see: The Complacency DelusionThere’s no doubt about it. When Safety doesn’t know something it just makes stuff up (https://safetyrisk.net/when-safety-doesnt-know-just-make-st-up/ ). And Safety is so good at it. Experts in spruiking complete … [Read more...] about The ASSP Getting Complacency Completely Wrong

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: ASSP, complacency, neuroscience

Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth

April 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth The language of ‘performance’ in safety has over time, been decoupled from its real meaning. How humans ‘perform’ has been commandeered by behaviourism and scientism in safety by the meaningless pursuit of measurement. We see this typically in the … [Read more...] about Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth

Filed Under: 1% safer, Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, complacency, fallibility, neuroscience, performance, safety differently, technique

The Complacency Delusion

January 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

The Complacency Delusion You’ve got to hand it to Safety, it loves to talk about things it knows little about. Then it spruiks solutions based on ignorance and droves line up for snake oil and a feeding frenzy on dumb packaged as a solution. A good example of this is a recent, ASSP endorsed … [Read more...] about The Complacency Delusion

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: ASSP, complacency, heuristics

How Workers Really Make Decisions

October 25, 2020 by Admin Leave a Comment

How Workers Really Make Decisions Latest video by Dr Rob Long as a follow up to his previous article: How Do Workers Make Decisions? Video Transcript (video below this): I’m asked many, many times this question: “how do workers make decisions?” And, I decided I'll answer that with a brief video. … [Read more...] about How Workers Really Make Decisions

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviourism, complacency, decisions, mind

When Things Go Wrong Let’s Do More of the Same

July 10, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

  I always find it fascinating when there is an increase in safety statistics or incidents that the call is always about greater vigilance, more checklists, more policing and more effort. What an amazing industry that still doesn’t know why things go wrong. Rather than question the … [Read more...] about When Things Go Wrong Let’s Do More of the Same

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Legislation, STEM Tagged With: complacency, STEM

Chronic Unease is Not Enough

May 4, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Chronic Unease is Not Enough   The concept of ‘chronic unease’ has been about in safety for some time. It was unfortunately put forward by Reason as a mindset to tackle complacency. Complacency is rarely well defined and is most associated with: in-alertness, lethargy, laziness, not being … [Read more...] about Chronic Unease is Not Enough

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: Chronic Unease, complacency

The Convenience of Complacency

October 23, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The Convenience of Complacency One of the cultural characteristics of the safety industry is fundamental attribution error . It seems that safety seeks blame before it breathes, you certainly need to if your job title includes zero. Whenever there is an event in comes safety to quickly ensure that … [Read more...] about The Convenience of Complacency

Filed Under: Construction Safety, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: complacency, hazardman, irrational, linkedin

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