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An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video

January 31, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: Anthropology, culture, culture cloud, jung, Lotman, poetics, religion, Semiosphere, semiotics, social psychology

Advancing Backwards in Safety

December 30, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

I had a call from a mate this week, the board of his company have been mesmerised by a presentation of the latest advances in safety. So I asked to see a copy of this presentation expecting some astounding research and scintillating stuff taking safety into the future. So what did I see? Bradley … [Read more...] about Advancing Backwards in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: 1% safer, Bradley Curve, culture, heinrich, one percent safer, safety models, transdisciplinarity

Just as Well Culture Doesn’t Listen to Safety

December 29, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

In Hopkin’s chapter (4) The Use and Abuse of “Culture” in Safety Culture, Culture Models the assumption is made that misunderstanding and misuse of an idea is ‘abusive’. (The use of such an emotive term is never explained by Hopkins, nor is any connection made between supposed ‘confusion’ and … [Read more...] about Just as Well Culture Doesn’t Listen to Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: culture, hopkins

Grade One Lessons in Culture

September 18, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 17 Comments

  Grade One Lessons in Culture I picked up my granddaughter from school the other day and she showed me her work and it was delightful to see what they have been doing in Grade One in Primary School on culture. What a shame we don’t do such work with people in risk and safety. Instead, safety … [Read more...] about Grade One Lessons in Culture

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Semiotics Tagged With: artifacts, culture

Essentials in Ethics for Safety

September 16, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One day when safety understands that a mature approach to ethics is essential for being professional, it might hopefully tackle the essentials in ethical and moral thinking. Unfortunately, documents like the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics are so glaringly inadequate it is laughable. It is also clear … [Read more...] about Essentials in Ethics for Safety

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: culture, linguistics, politics, power, socialitie

How NOT to do Anything About Culture in Building and Construction

November 11, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

How NOT to do Anything About Culture in Building and Construction The recently released Culture Standard for the Construction Industry (https://www.cultureinconstruction.com.au/culture-standard/ ) is a classic example of how to look like culture is identified and being addressed, when it is not. … [Read more...] about How NOT to do Anything About Culture in Building and Construction

Filed Under: Construction Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: culture

Culture About Much More Than Structure

April 23, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Culture About Much More Than Structure One’s assumptions about what defines culture limits or expands culture itself. One thing is for sure, culture is about much more than organizational structures and systems. Indeed, culture is such a wicked problem … [Read more...] about Culture About Much More Than Structure

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: culture, wicked problems

Risk Culture and Cultural Risk

February 14, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 11 Comments

Risk Culture and Cultural Risk When the risk and safety industry defines culture it doesn’t consider critical aspects of culture. The most common definition is that culture is ‘what we do around here’ which fits in nicely with the behaviourist-cognitivist worldview that dominates the sector. So … [Read more...] about Risk Culture and Cultural Risk

Filed Under: Just Culture, Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: culture, risk culture, safety culture

Canada Culture Workshops Vancouver and Calgary November 2018

September 16, 2018 by Admin Leave a Comment

Canada Culture Workshops Vancouver and Calgary November 2018   The mis-definition of culture as either: systems, behaviours or leadership causes so many problems for people and organisations in their journey in risk and safety. Then leaders wonder why they find it so challenging to … [Read more...] about Canada Culture Workshops Vancouver and Calgary November 2018

Filed Under: CLLR, Safety Culture Tagged With: canada, culture

WHS Legislation is NOT about Safety it’s about Culture

May 11, 2018 by Max Geyer 16 Comments

WHS Legislation is NOT about Safety it’s about Culture. I asked a couple of managers the other day what they thought the WHS legislation was about. You see, my client had asked me to make sure that their managers knew of their legal compliance obligations – a fairly typical request often from … [Read more...] about WHS Legislation is NOT about Safety it’s about Culture

Filed Under: Just Culture, Max Geyer, Safety Culture, Safety Legislation, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: culture, Legislation, Safety, whs Legislation

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