We have seen recently the absurdity of hyper-safety, suggesting all outdoor activities be banned and that Santa wear a seatbelt (https://safetyrisk.net/the-horrors-of-hyper-safety/ ). All suggested by so-called ‘safety professionals’. Of course, this kind of preoccupation with petty low-risk … [Read more...] about Petty Safety is Not Professional
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The Horrors of Hyper-Safety
Whenever Hyper-Safety is on the scene, you can expect the suppression of any sense-making, intelligence or learning. We see this yet again, in another clanger from New Zealand. Yet, we know from all the research (Amaberti, Taleb etc) that hyper-safety is not just unachievable but … [Read more...] about The Horrors of Hyper-Safety
Hyper-Safety and the Fear of Safety
I had pictures sent to me today of a supposed ‘new innovation’ in safety. You couldn’t make this up: taped exclusion zones around doors so that opening doors don’t harm people. This is like the sign on doors that state: ‘beware of opening door’. This pic is a good example of … [Read more...] about Hyper-Safety and the Fear of Safety
Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk
Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk One of the greatest challenges for the any industry is introspection, gazing into its own belly button hoping to find something new. We could call this ‘fortress mentality’, the building of boundaries too difficult to break down. It seems that anytime the … [Read more...] about Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk
Toilet Roll Safety
Toilet Roll Safety My eldest daughter has just graduated and has her first teaching work. So, we talk a lot about teaching, learning, curriculum, hidden curriculum, scaffolding, conversion, child development, psychology of learning, ethics, the politics of schooling and curriculum … [Read more...] about Toilet Roll Safety
The Safetyization of Normal Life
The Safetyization of Normal Life One of the delusions of safetyism is the naive belief that safetyism works for normal fallible people. One of the delusions of Zeroism is the idiocy of speaking absolutes to fallible people. Strangely safetyization is only a workplace thing, no one lives this … [Read more...] about The Safetyization of Normal Life