Safety loves telling people to ‘speak up’ but has no interest in tackling the cause. Indeed, Safety is the industry of silences about what ought to matter (https://safetyrisk.net/category/safety-culture-silences/), and noisy about what doesn’t matter. But if you can’t speak up, you can always … [Read more...] about Speak Up, but Don’t Tackle the Cause
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An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety
An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety We saw this week an ex-Prime Minister of Australia (Tony Abbott) caught on camera at a public beach without a mask . He was fined $500 for breaking the law. Abbott then came out in the media and stated that: The law is interpreted and was wrong and That he … [Read more...] about An Ethic for Dobbing In Safety
Dobbing, Culture and Risk
Dobbing, Culture and Risk It’s such a laugh, watching people launch a ‘dob in line’ in Australia. We saw this recently with the Government’s ‘dobseeker’ hotline . And we see this approach with regulators and others in Safety , with some weird idea that ‘blowing the whistle’ to un-safety ‘works’. … [Read more...] about Dobbing, Culture and Risk