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Heinrich’s pyramid

Shopping for Safety

January 29, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

The bell on the door buzzed as I entered the shop, a large emporium with worn cedar shelves signifying construction in the last century. I loved the smell of these old shops with dusty stock on the shelves that hadn’t moved for years, some with old price tags in pounds, shillings and pence. The old … [Read more...] about Shopping for Safety

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Robert Long, Safety Satire, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Heinrich’s pyramid, people and safety, Zero Harm

Nonsense Curves and Pyramids

January 22, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 15 Comments

Nonsense Curves and Pyramids Safety likes nothing more than curves and pyramids, nothing so exciting as parading out the Bradley Curve or Heinrich’s Pyramid to get the troops excited about failure and loss. The Bradley Curve was created by DuPont in 1995 to try and benchmark notions of culture and … [Read more...] about Nonsense Curves and Pyramids

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: Bradley Curve, duPont, Heinrich’s pyramid, heuristics, pyramids, taleb

The Search for Meaning in Safety Models

June 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

There is a huge chasm between three things: the intent and design (assumed philosophy) of a model, the semiotic diffusion of the model and what humans make of the model. Models and symbols are not neutral nor objective. All models are semiotics and as such seek to explain the inexplicable. This is … [Read more...] about The Search for Meaning in Safety Models

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Myths, Semiotics Tagged With: Bradley Curve, Heinrich’s pyramid, models, safety models, semiotics, Swiss Cheese Model

The Great Heinrich Hoax

June 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Great Heinrich Hoax Perhaps the greatest evidence that Safety is not a profession is the acceptance by the industry of hoaxes and myths. There is no greater hoax in the safety industry than the myth that injury data or injury rates have any connection at all to causality or the management of … [Read more...] about The Great Heinrich Hoax

Filed Under: CLLR, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Heinrich’s pyramid, myths

Hoodwinked by Heinrich

June 15, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Hoodwinked by Heinrich 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 … [Read more...] about Hoodwinked by Heinrich

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK, heinrich, Heinrich’s pyramid

Deconstructing the Myth of Heinrich

June 12, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the most significant factors that enables the mythology of Heinrich in Safety is that people don’t read Heinrich, can’t access Heinrich and have no expertise in Historiography. Most often in Safety those profess some expertise in: History, Culture, Neuroscience, Habits or Psychology, have no … [Read more...] about Deconstructing the Myth of Heinrich

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Myths Tagged With: domino theory, heinrich, Heinrich’s pyramid

Safety Leadership Essentials

January 7, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Safety Leadership Essentials   A friend showed me a four day course they had to attend for their company titled ‘Safety Leadership’. As I looked through the materials I couldn’t see anything I thought resembled ‘leadership’ in safety. The course was cover to cover with the fundamentals of … [Read more...] about Safety Leadership Essentials

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Simplistic Safety, Wicked Problems Tagged With: Heinrich’s pyramid, safety culture, Safety Goals, safety leadership, safety legislation

Zero as a Semiotic

May 29, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

heinrichs pyramid

Zero as a Semiotic When we look at the image (semiotic) of zero there is much that is going on unconsciously. The idea of zero in risk and safety may have originally started as some naïve quest for no injuries but it has evolved to become the iconic anchor for a religious movement. The Spirit of … [Read more...] about Zero as a Semiotic

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, Heinrich’s pyramid, safety archetype, Swiss Cheese Model, transdisciplinarity

Safety Awareness Game – A bitter pill to swallow

September 14, 2013 by Admin 1 Comment

A bitter pill to swallow – A little game you can play to demonstrate safety awareness Although this little game (great ice-breaker for a training session) references the theory behind Heinrich’s Pyramid (not something which is really valid in reality – do a search on this site for “Heinrich” and … [Read more...] about Safety Awareness Game – A bitter pill to swallow

Filed Under: Safety Training Tagged With: Heinrich’s pyramid, safety game, safety training

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