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How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk?

February 20, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk? One of the reasons why Safety is so obsessed with: paperwork, systems and audits, is that it is so poor at conversation. In the Social Psychology of … [Read more...] about How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk?

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: conversation, SPoR

What Are Observation-Conversation Skills?

March 10, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

The challenge with effectiveness in conversations is disposition. How are you pre-disposed to the ‘other’ in approach, listening, reflecting and responding? Yes, skill development and technique are … [Read more...] about What Are Observation-Conversation Skills?

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: conversation, observation

New Video Series on Safety

November 26, 2018 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

New Video Series on Safety   Conversations With Jeff Lyth on A New View of Safety As part of my last visit to Canada Jeff Lyth and I decided to record some casual conversations and … [Read more...] about New Video Series on Safety

Filed Under: CLLR, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: conversation, heretic, new view

How was your break?

September 7, 2016 by Drewie 1 Comment

How was your break? This is the question most of us ask when meeting at the airport to fly to back to work or when the crew first arrives back on site from R&R. Is it just social etiquette, or … [Read more...] about How was your break?

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: conversation

‘Measuring’ does things to people…. (and what to do about it)

August 29, 2016 by Rob Sams 1 Comment

‘Measuring’ does things to people…. (and what to do about it) It has become fashionable for organisations to use positive or leading indicators as a way to ‘measure’ their risk and safety … [Read more...] about ‘Measuring’ does things to people…. (and what to do about it)

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Lead and Lag Indicators, Rob Sams Tagged With: conversation, lag indicators, lead indicators, measuring safety, safety interactions

The Art of Humble Inquiry as a Pathway to Safety Improvement

August 9, 2016 by Gabrielle Carlton 45 Comments

Gab Carlton's first article republished by demand. Seems to be a topic of interest at the moment. With 43 comments, one of our most popular articles.  The message here is so simple yet contradicts … [Read more...] about The Art of Humble Inquiry as a Pathway to Safety Improvement

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Gabrielle Carlton, Humble Inquiry Tagged With: conversation, humble enquiry, safety communication, telling

The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It

April 20, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

One of my favourites from the archives: The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It Being fallible doesn’t mean one is inevitably stupid, lazy, greedy or weak, there are as many advantages to being … [Read more...] about The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It

Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: bias, comsulation, conversation, habits, heuristics, human fallibility, humans, risky activities, Safety

The Dangers of Being an Expert

April 2, 2015 by Rob Sams 12 Comments

I have always loved the saying that an Expert is just a “has been drip under pressure” (Ex Spurt). However, this insightful new article by Rob Sams takes it wonderfully more deeper than that. … [Read more...] about The Dangers of Being an Expert

Filed Under: Relationships, Safety Professional Tagged With: conversation, expert, human, reflecting, relationships

Just Toolbox it!

November 30, 2014 by Rob Sams Leave a Comment

Just Toolbox it! ‘Just Toolbox it!’ How often have you heard this term in risk and safety? It seems to be the key way we address safety concerns including incidents, hazards, a ‘safety alert’ or a … [Read more...] about Just Toolbox it!

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Humble Inquiry, Rob Sams, Toolbox Talks Tagged With: communication, conversation, Safety, telling, tool box talks

Communicating and Consulting About Risk

November 11, 2014 by Admin 5 Comments

Communicating and Consulting About Risk In this next video from Gab and Rob's 'Conversation on the Couch' series, the guys talk through a little known book that accompanies the Risk Management … [Read more...] about Communicating and Consulting About Risk

Filed Under: Safety Videos, Talking Risk Tagged With: communicating, consulting, conversation, risk

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