Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
I have written before about the Heinrich Hoax and Delusion (https://safetyrisk.net/ration-delusions-and-heinrichs-hoax/), the Heinrich Hoodoo (https://safetyrisk.net/the-heinrich-hoodoo/) and Heinrich Propaganda (https://safetyrisk.net/the-heinrich-hoodoo/). All this critique is anchored to an openly declared philosophy/worldview anchored to the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). Very few perspectives offered in the … Learn more >>>>>
There’s no doubt that founding interests in safety emerged from insurance and engineering. The concocted rubbish of Heinrich in 1931 was founded in mechanistic assumptions of apportioning blame and responsibility for compensation. It is from this foundation that Heinrich made up false accident ratios and … Learn more >>>>>
Deleuze rightly states that the idea of common sense is: a dogmatic, orthodox and moral image of thought.
To recognise this is the first step in critical thought. If one cares to think about presuppositions in suppositions, then one is well on the way to … Learn more >>>>>
If there was ever a disastrous start to the birth of an industry it has to be safety. When Herbert Heinrich published Industrial Accident Prevention in 1931 he launched an industry that would be obsessed with numerics, metrics, counting and misattribution.
Most of what Heinrich concocted was … Learn more >>>>>
I had a call from a mate this week, the board of his company have been mesmerised by a presentation of the latest advances in safety. So I asked to see a copy of this presentation expecting some astounding research and scintillating stuff taking safety into the future. So what … Learn more >>>>>
