The Culture Cloud as a way of explaining Safety Culture This weeks conversation is about Safety Culture. Dave Whitefield from Semiosphere and Andrew Thornhill from Clarity Enabled and myself discuss the Culture Cloud as a way of explaining Safety Culture. Safety Culture from Matthew Thorne … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud
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Day Zero. SPoR in Europe
I’ve decided to keep a bit of a diary for those interested in SPoR and what’s happening over the next 2 weeks. I’m off for 2 weeks of workshops with Dr Rob in Austria and Hungary. So let’s start with Day Zero. Day Zero doesn’t mean we do nothing. So doesn’t that make it a paradox. Yes, that’s … [Read more...] about Day Zero. SPoR in Europe
An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video
When it comes to a discussion on culture, the risk and safety industry leaves out any discussion of the lost critical elements of culture. These are the safety silences on culture (https://safetyrisk.net/category/safety-culture-silences/ ). In SPoR, we propose a completely different understanding … [Read more...] about An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video
Culture is Cloudy in Safety, and That’s a Good Thing
I read with amusement the book Safety Cultures, Safety Models with so much assertion, assumption, projection, intra-safety confirmation bias and emotive language with little evidence. One of the favourite metaphors in the book is the use of the language of ‘cloud’. Apparently, confusion is … [Read more...] about Culture is Cloudy in Safety, and That’s a Good Thing
Safety Surveying What You Already Know
Safety Surveying What You Already Know I received a post this week from someone who had conducted the typical orthodox safety survey. There are many such surveys on the market, all infused with STEM-only assumptions about materialist-rationalist safety. As I looked through the survey results and … [Read more...] about Safety Surveying What You Already Know
Safety and Risk Culture Cloud
I wanted to republish this article from last year after just reading yet another article about safety culture being "the way we do things around here" and therefore to change that, "Leaders need to walk the walk and talk the talk". I have never been comfortable with the term "safety culture", its … [Read more...] about Safety and Risk Culture Cloud
