Loathing Fallibility and Rituals of Safety I was in the Post Office yesterday and despite the markings on the floor, some people didn’t maintain the appropriate social distance. There were 3 people … [Read more...] about Loathing Fallibility and Rituals of Safety
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Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk
Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk One of the beauties of fallibility is what Alan Watts called The Wisdom of Insecurity . Watts describes how binary worldviews create fear and dogma, … [Read more...] about Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk
Courting Infallibility in Safety
Courting Infallibility in Safety 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. … [Read more...] about Courting Infallibility in Safety
Please Don’t Use the ‘F’ Word in Safety
Please Don’t Use the ‘F’ Word in Safety 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 … [Read more...] about Please Don’t Use the ‘F’ Word in Safety
The Quantitative and Qualitative Divide in Safety
The Quantitative and Qualitative Divide in Safety Risk and safety by their evolution through Engineering and Science have now become disciplines of quantity. Unfortunately, critical human skills … [Read more...] about The Quantitative and Qualitative Divide in Safety
Freedom in Necessity
Freedom in Necessity 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, … [Read more...] about Freedom in Necessity
Fallibility is not Failure
Fallibility is not Failure 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 … [Read more...] about Fallibility is not Failure
Safety Racism
It 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 … [Read more...] about Safety Racism
