Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
The ancient Greek cult of the Kriophoros is captured in the image of the ram-bearer’ and can teach us something about the nature of harm. The Kriophoros is also foundational in Early Christian Art (http://albertis-window.com/2017/03/the-mosocophoros-kriophoros-and-early-christian-art/). In the ancient world, the imagery and metaphor of … Learn more >>>>>
The dominant ideology of the safety industry is the ideology of zero (http://visionzero.global/node/6). This global ideology is founded on the binary mindset that believes there can be no other acceptable goal, objective, target or idea.
This ideology is the Ethic (methodology) that drives Safety and all that follows … Learn more >>>>>
‘Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life’. Genesis 3:17
How Safety defines hurt or harm is a huge issue for the industry. The monster of injury statistics now defined as safety has created a … Learn more >>>>>
The problems of death and time lay at the heart of all religious consciousness. This is why Risk and Safety are fundamentally religious activities. Risk and Safety are all about ‘risk from’ and ‘safety to’. Risk and Safety are about freedom from death which is … Learn more >>>>>
The lack of critical thinking in the safety industry allows nonsense like the Bradley Curve, matrices and pyramids to thrive. All of the assumptions of these models are seriously flawed, none more so than the Bradley Curve . The Bradley Curve … Learn more >>>>>
