It seems that the regulators and peak bodies are again wheeling out these silly safety champion and pledging to be safe campaigns. We’ve seen it all before and this stuff just doesn't work. Safety … [Read more...] about The Last Thing Safety Needs is Champions
hero myth
I Have the Power, I’m a Safety Hero
I Have the Power, I’m a Safety Hero I try to avoid attending safety conferences as much as I can as I find them depressing and lacking vision. Each time I am compelled to go I am never surprised by … [Read more...] about I Have the Power, I’m a Safety Hero
The Mythic Symbology of Safety
The Mythic Symbology of Safety One of the strange contradictions in the world of safety is between the positivist materialist paradigm that dominates the WHS curriculum/texts and the mythic symbology … [Read more...] about The Mythic Symbology of Safety
Everyday safety
Everyday safety I wrote recently about bells and whistles in safety (https://safetyrisk.net/bells-and-whistles-and-due-diligence/) and how easily Safety is seduced into some delusional campaign of … [Read more...] about Everyday safety
The Hero Myth in Modern Management
A terrific essay by one of my fellow Students undertaking Graduate Certificate in The Psychology of Risk at ACU – published with permission What is the ‘Hero Myth’? How is this Evident in Modern … [Read more...] about The Hero Myth in Modern Management
