Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Ten Cautions About Safety ChecklistsSee also: Making Objects Safe or People Safe (Dr Rob Long), Risk is About People, not just Objects (Rob Sams)
Whilst value of checklists is well documented by Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto) and others, … Learn more >>>>>
One of the lessons Safety continually doesn’t learn is that numerics, metrics and statistics desensitize people to caring. This is known as psychic numbing and has been well researched by Slovic and others (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283318445_The_More_Who_Die_the_Less_We_Care_Psychic_Numbing_and_Genocide).
At the moment our TVs and media are filled with data, figures, percentages, deviations, … Learn more >>>>>
As Gerald Wilde puts it in “Target Risk 3”: “Also, they may simply have been blinded by their zeal to do something quick and easy for safety – and thus doing nothing for it.”
Just like many years ago we learned to … Learn more >>>>>
Dr Rob beat me to the post on this one about the proposal to teach “safety” in schools so I’ll just make a few opening comments….. I fear the opposite of desensitization and that we will produce a generation of little “Zero Harmers”. If the Public Service safety inductions that … Learn more >>>>>
