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Thinking About Harm

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Thinking About Harm A new perspective on the concept of harm with 10 tips at the end that should help bring some sense back into the engagement with risk. Quote: So, what zero harm really means is selective reporting on definitions of harm the company counts. If we eliminate the definitions of … [Read more...] about Thinking About Harm

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: FIFO, harm, psychology, Zero Harm

Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm

June 28, 2023 by Max Geyer 24 Comments

Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm. Download a copy of the paper (includes the Bibliography for the references):  Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm The prevention of harm is about trying to see, predict and control all things that may deliver an undesired outcome. … [Read more...] about Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm

Filed Under: Max Geyer, Resiliencing, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: harm, resilience, satisficing, Zero Harm

Real Risk for Real Life

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

Real Risk for Real Life 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 inevitable in … [Read more...] about Real Risk for Real Life

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: harm, religion, time, zero vision

Natural Born Learners

April 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Natural Born Learners and 10 Essentials to Human Learning 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 … [Read more...] about Natural Born Learners

Filed Under: Learning, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Bradley Curve, harm, learning

Harming People in the Name of Good

January 31, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

We learned recently that there are always by-products in messaging. After all, the medium is the message. And we learned that despite good intentions that significant harm was caused. The reality is, it doesn’t matter how much passion you have or how much good will or intention, unless the … [Read more...] about Harming People in the Name of Good

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: competing goals, harm

Greater or Lesser Harm

February 28, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Greater or Lesser Harm 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 … [Read more...] about Greater or Lesser Harm

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: harm, myths

An Ethic of Harm

January 25, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...] about An Ethic of Harm

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: harm

Tackling the Reality of Harm

August 17, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

  ‘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 circus of linguistic … [Read more...] about Tackling the Reality of Harm

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Statistics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: harm, statitsics, zero

Is Harm and Suffering Evil?

September 4, 2017 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Is Harm and Suffering Evil? Is fallibility and mortality wrong? Is harm the enemy of safety? Are all accidents preventable? Are mistakes bad? Is it wrong to be human? Is risk essential to learning? Can people learn without risk? Is ‘trial and error’ a problem? What does it mean to be human? What is … [Read more...] about Is Harm and Suffering Evil?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: harm, religion, suffering

Promoting Dumb, Anxiety and Harm in the Name of Good

October 18, 2016 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Promoting Dumb, Anxiety and Harm in the Name of Good The by-products of not being educated in the challenges of ethics and ideology in safety training are many (https://safetyrisk.net/isnt-it-time-we-reformed-the-whs-curriculum/). The first by-product is the development of policy by naivety and … [Read more...] about Promoting Dumb, Anxiety and Harm in the Name of Good

Filed Under: Ethics, Mental health, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Stress, Zero Harm Tagged With: anxiety, fear, harm, Zero Harm

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