Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
The evidence for Muscle Memory and Body Memory is extensive (Chapter 1. The phenomenology of body memory ; Body Memory and the Unconscious ) and dispels the crazy brain-as-computer metaphor. The human mind (brain) is not the Human Mind. The … Learn more >>>>>
Do the Right Thing, It’s Common Sense
Wouldn’t it be easy and simple if risk was black and white and safety was as easy as ‘check your gut’ (AIHS BoK) and ‘do the right thing’ (Just Culture). Unfortunately, it’s not and talking about ‘common sense’ and other … Learn more >>>>>
The emotions drive decision making and ought to be of interest to those who care about how people manage risk.
It is useful when thinking about human emotions that we identify different ways, impulses and unconscious drives that trigger decision making.
Emotions are integrated into … Learn more >>>>>
It’s such a funny (peculiar) situation. As fallible people we develop routines, habits and heuristics in order to make life and living efficient and yet there is so little discussion in the safety world about the importance of understanding implicit knowledge. The worldviews of engineering … Learn more >>>>>
One of the traps investigators fall into is thinking that people are the sum of inputs and outputs, that the behaviourist myth is true. Decision making in complex and far more sophisticated than the naïve proposals of the behaviourist worldview. Rewards and … Learn more >>>>>
