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Investigations and Heuristics

June 19, 2017 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Investigations and Heuristics

Investigations and Heuristics 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 punishments are not primarily the cause of behaviours. There are […]

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Filed Under: Investigation, Psychology of Safety and Risk, Robert Long Tagged With: heuristics

Under Par Safety

April 23, 2016 by Mark Taylor 4 Comments

Under Par Safety

Under Par Safety Our brains are wired for inadvertence and laziness, not for attention and choice. So why do we force people to attend long winded safety meetings which bore people to death? Also, our brains are not designed to think in binary logic, so why have we created systems which force people to complete […]

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Construction workers safer when they ditch the manual: study

March 30, 2016 by Dave Collins 6 Comments

Construction workers safer when they ditch the manual: study We all know (or suspect) that safety manuals really aren’t designed for ease of worker use and effectiveness but rather to comply with legislation, to pass audits and win tenders – the very cynical may use terms like “Cover Your Arse”. They are written by “experts” […]

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Filed Under: Construction Safety, Safety systems Tagged With: bounded rationality, Construction safety, heuristics

The Repression of Uncertainty

May 16, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 11 Comments

The Repression of Uncertainty

I recently republished this on Linkedin Pulse where it inspired some very positive comments, be sure to check out the 20 keys to maturing in safety leadership at the end of the article: If you are a Parent, a Partner, a Leader or a Safety Person then you have learned, the hard way, that people cannot be controlled, […]

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Filed Under: ALARP, Psychology of Safety and Risk, Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Wicked Problems, Zero Harm Tagged With: compliance, controls, heuristics, paperwork, repression, rules, Safety Talk, uncertainty, Zero Harm

The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It

April 20, 2015 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It

One of my favourites from the archives: The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It Being fallible doesn’t mean one is inevitably stupid, lazy, greedy or weak, there are as many advantages to being human and fallible as there are limitations. No one should want humans to be robotic – this would make us […]

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Filed Under: Psychology of Safety and Risk, Risk Aversion, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: bias, comsulation, conversation, habits, heuristics, human fallibility, humans, risky activities, Safety

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How Groupthink Works

How Groupthink Works

How Groupthink Works In light of the binary discourse that is floating about my last blog, Like A Collective Brain Snap, this may serve as a follow up. People often scratch their heads wondering why people do things and in exasperation and dismissal come up with the traditional stupidity/idiot causation scenario. This kind of binary […]

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Until Nothing Changes in Safety

Until Nothing Changes in Safety

Until Nothing Changes in Safety The industry of safety becomes more and more fixed in its current trajectory through its linguistic practices, semiotic meanings and social reproduction. What does this mean? Humans are the sum of their social relationships and the language that is used to communicate identity. Safety articulates itself through a discourse of […]

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Vision Can’t Come from Safety Compliance

Vision Can’t Come from Safety Compliance

Vision Can’t Come from Safety Compliance One of the spin offs, trade-offs and by-products of Vision Zero is a lack of vision. The idea of vision comes from more than just seeing something but rather seeing beyond something. I will be writing about this in my next book Envisioning Risk, Signs and Symbols in Risk. […]

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Dolphyn Newsletter – March 2018

IN THIS ISSUE This is our second Newsletter for 2018, and we again welcome new subscribers, many of who join us after purchasing Social Sensemaking. In this edition we share news of upcoming programs, including two in Auckland New Zealand, along with our usual news items including blogs, articles, books, a theme of the month […]

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By What Method?

By What Method?

By What Method? One of the strange beliefs of Safety is that the publication of injury statistics invokes change? Ah, how does it do that? Since when did information become motivation? When one looks at the many promises made in the safety industry and all the propaganda about zero, injury reduction etc. there are three […]

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I am a Spreadsheet King

I am a Spreadsheet King

I am a Spreadsheet King I have had numerous conversations with safety people this week who lament the amount of time they have to spend doing spreadsheets reporting on everything from injury rates, TRIFR, near miss etc. One a GM of a tier 1 organisation tells me he hasn’t had time to walk the floor […]

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