Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
One of the best questions one can ask of anyone spruiking zero is: please tell me what will happen tomorrow? Or perhaps next week?
Of course they can’t, no one can. Such is the beauty of fallibility
Just imagine how dreadful life would be if … Learn more >>>>>
It seems the moment one falls for the zero cult a whole range of ‘f’ words become anathema. Safety is so good at being noisy about words of perfection and judgement but also good at being selectively silent about a range of … Learn more >>>>>
Risk and safety by their evolution through Engineering and Science have now become disciplines of quantity. Unfortunately, critical human skills like: communications, listening, dialogue, understanding persons, social psychology, community, ethics, critical thinking and semiotic/poetic thinking are completely missing from the risk and safety … Learn more >>>>>
The characteristics of fallibility are the benefits of fallibility. Unless humans are fallible we can never know the delights of love, forgiveness, relationship, passion, care, helping or learning. The quest for immutability, to be robotic and without error is delusional mythology.
The equivalent of slavery is alienation, … Learn more >>>>>
One of the fascinating results of the Zero Survey (https://spor.com.au/zero-vision-survey/) is responses to the first statement: ‘Humans are fallible, mortal and the world is random’. With over 350 respondents 4% deny this statement. My expectation was that this opening statement would get 100% agreement, … Learn more >>>>>
