We know that the 5 affirmations of HOP are not ‘truths’ as asserted by Conklin. Indeed, this echoes similar claims by Heinrich 90 years ago of ‘self-evident truths’ in safety. Whenever you read assertions like this in safety you know that what follows is NOT science but marketing. Just because … [Read more...] about New Rhetoric but Same Old Dynamics in HOP
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Declaring What is By What Isn’t, HOP as Traditional Safety
One of the things Safety does best is declaring what is, by what isn’t and, when it comes to Safety, it seems believing one’s own lies is par for the course. I see this in HOP when reading Conklin’s book The 5 Principles of Human Organisational Performance. Of course, as in all traditional … [Read more...] about Declaring What is By What Isn’t, HOP as Traditional Safety