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Fluffy Ethics and Safety

January 17, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

imageThere is nothing quite like a good façade to make sure nothing changes. Trot out some spin, drop a few definitions and Bob’s your uncle.

The best way to test fluffy ethics is to investigate the rigor in topics of interest and discussions of ontology, … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS, Bok, climate denial, ethics

Ten Ways to Improve Safety

October 7, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

imageWhenever the question arises about improving the safety industry it is amazing to see what is invisibly declared off limits. Lets have safety improvement as long as no sacred rites or safety lores are questioned. Lets tinker about the edges, change the brand of cosmetics … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: Bok, ethics, STEM, vision zero

Safety Racism

September 15, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 20 Comments

 

imageIt seems that the moment one invokes the word ‘safety’ all ethical considerations become unimportant. We see evidence of this with comments that Islanders are less safe, and less intelligent for safety! .

How do people get away with this??? Of course safety is the industry of eugenics! … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Slips Trips and Falls, Zero Harm Tagged With: body of knowledge, ethics, fallibility, racism

Zero as Morally Wicked

September 7, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 8 Comments

 

zero harmRavetz in the foreword to Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World, A Mind of One’s Own  talks about ‘post-normal science’, ‘box-ticking culture’ and the ‘poverty of normal science’. He sets the scene for a conversation about the limits of the myth of objectivity and … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: ethics, morals, wicked problem, zero

Paralysis by Precaution

June 11, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Paralysis by Precaution

zero harmMunthe (2011) investigates the cost of precaution in his book The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk. The Precautionary Principle (PP) is sometimes called ‘prudent avoidance’ and is premised on the idea that inaction in times of doubt and … Learn more >>>>>

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