The foundation for an ethic starts with a consideration of Power and Technique (Ellul). Well before one can articulate any idea of virtues (https://safetyrisk.net/ten-virtues-for-a-positive-safety-culture/) or vices, one needs to be clear about a founding philosophy (methodology). Tinkering about … [Read more...] about An Ethic of Non-Power in Risk
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The Rights and Wrongs of What is Right and Wrong
How strange this industry that thinks that Safety is objective and has no interest in ethics. The very language of right and wrong invokes an ethic, methodology and ontology (theory of being). All this silly focus by S2 on positive vs negative, what goes right or what is determined to be wrong, says … [Read more...] about The Rights and Wrongs of What is Right and Wrong
7 Traits of a Safety-Focused Safety Leader – NOT!
Even when Safety attempts to discuss humanizing it does so through the lens of Technique (Ellul). The focus is rarely on persons but rather the safety program and safety outcomes. What a shame that when Safety endeavours to do something it can’t imagine outside of its own safety box! A good … [Read more...] about 7 Traits of a Safety-Focused Safety Leader – NOT!
AI and Safety, Brutalism on Steroids
There has been so much hype about AI recently and such little discernment about what is hidden in the language and discourse of so much ‘noise’ about the issue. So much of what Ellul described 70 years ago: The Technological Society Never Mind Where, So Long As It's Fast: Jacques Ellul and … [Read more...] about AI and Safety, Brutalism on Steroids