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A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations

July 17, 2022 by Admin 1 Comment

I’ve recently seen and done a few incident investigations which really fell short of any mark except for ticking the box on the form that says ‘investigation completed’. There are ongoing debates about whether ICAM is better than TapRoot or if that is better than Root Cause Analysis or BowTie or … [Read more...] about A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations

Filed Under: Accidents and Incidents, Investigation, Learning, Robert Long, Safety Differently Tagged With: icam, incident investigation, taproot, thinking, thinking clock

Culture Silences in Safety – Stress, Personality and Behaviours

July 16, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

In all the mythology projected by BBS (the darling of safety) you never read about the subjectivities of perception, aberrations of behaviour or how personality/temperament determination enactment. The crazy assertion of BBS is that behaviours in themselves are somehow objective, when they are not. … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Stress, Personality and Behaviours

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Robert Long, Safety Culture Silences, Semiotics, Stress Tagged With: icam, neuroscience

Investigations and The Simplicity Attraction

October 25, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Investigations and The Simplicity Attraction In the face of so much noise, competing values, diversity and confusion stands the myth of Occam’s Razor, a wish that when faced with multiple factors, humans will always opt for the shortest simplest route. The 14th Century philosopher/theologian … [Read more...] about Investigations and The Simplicity Attraction

Filed Under: Investigation, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Wicked Problems Tagged With: anti-fragile, icam, occams razor, SEEK, simple safety

Ritual as Embodied Learning in Safety

September 23, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Ritual as Embodied Learning in Safety I have written about the nature of ritual previously, particularly the properties of ritual: https://safetyrisk.net/safety-as-ritual-performance/ All rituals (and associated semiotics) ‘embody’ learning. It is important when understanding learning that we … [Read more...] about Ritual as Embodied Learning in Safety

Filed Under: Learning, Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: icam, rituals

The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget

September 10, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget Image Source One of the favourite activities of Safety is downloading and sharing templates. This is promoted by the idea that paperwork is an end in itself. Once the paperwork is completed in comes ‘set and forget’, nothing to worry about except the next … [Read more...] about The Seduction of Templates, Set and Forget

Filed Under: critical thinking, Risk Assessment Templates, Robert Long Tagged With: icam, Mentalitie, paper safe, templates

The Bias of Method Design in Risk

September 1, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Bias of Method Design in Risk Anything that is designed hides the assumptions and philosophy of the designer. The methodology (philosophy) of the designer is not visible but is rather hidden in the method, what is enacted. So, if one looks at the iCam method one tends not to see its bias … [Read more...] about The Bias of Method Design in Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: bias, Bow-Tie, icam, iCue, method, methodology, safety in design

Deconstructing iCam, Useful or Useless

August 28, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Deconstructing iCam, Useful or Useless? It’s always an education to see what Safety flocks to and makes ‘orthodox’. Safety always seeks out mechanistic-behaviourist methods to suit its assumptions about what constitutes personhood. It actually never discusses personhood, it just leaves that silent … [Read more...] about Deconstructing iCam, Useful or Useless

Filed Under: critical thinking, Investigation, Robert Long Tagged With: icam

Serendipity and Risk

August 26, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Serendipity and Risk One of the great challenges for traditional safety is the problem of uncertainty, unpredictability and luck. I have written before about luck: https://safetyrisk.net/good-luck-to-the-luck-deniers/ https://safetyrisk.net/do-you-believe-in-good-and-bad-luck/ … [Read more...] about Serendipity and Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: Bow-Tie, gambling, icam, luck, luck deniers

All Risk is Subjective

June 16, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The latest research confirms what SPoR has known for sometime, that all vision is subjective, objective vision is impossible (https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-philosophy-lab-vision-impossible.html ), just as zero is impossible. Researchers at John Hopkins University found that it's impossible … [Read more...] about All Risk is Subjective

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: 5 whys, AIHS BoK on Ethics, ALARP, icam, risk, subjective

Detailed Root Cause Analysis Leads to Industrial Manslaughter Charge

June 9, 2020 by Barry Spud 2 Comments

Following a recent fatality at a residential construction site, the WorkOver Authority commissioned me to undertake an independent, unbiased root cause investigation to help them confirm what they already knew and to justify further action against those even remotely involved. As a result of my … [Read more...] about Detailed Root Cause Analysis Leads to Industrial Manslaughter Charge

Filed Under: Safety Satire Tagged With: icam, industrial manslaughter, root cause analysis, taproot

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