These are helped from by the central Ontology or World View at the centre of the cloud. Attitudes values and beliefs have their own trajectory and we need to know where this takes us. This can also be shaken by the very Turbulence of the Cloud and Stressors. This can manifest for example with a … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud tour part 5; Values Attitudes and Beliefs
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Culture Cloud Tour – Part 2: Habits and Heuristics
Culture Cloud Tour Part 2: Habits and Heuristics So we head straight North on the Culture cloud as we discuss Habits and Heuristics Both are unconscious, one is learned Short cuts, the other is Uncontrolled actions and activity. So if Habits and Heuristics are unconscious what are … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud Tour – Part 2: Habits and Heuristics
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With the advent of Psychosocial Risk and Hazards (I hate the concept of a person being a hazard) there are many organisations that realise they have no understanding of what is being asked here. Safework Australia Code of Practice; managing psychosocial hazards at work With a short of Mental … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud Tour
Understanding Culture Differently
Any approach that seeks an understanding of culture requires a sophisticated sense of ‘knowing’ because, culture in itself cannot be defined or controlled like some would like. Indeed, in seeking to define (and control) Culture one already reduces it by a method of reductionism. That is, culture … [Read more...] about Understanding Culture Differently
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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
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
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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
