Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk One of the beauties of fallibility is what Alan Watts called The Wisdom of Insecurity . Watts describes how binary worldviews create fear and dogma, making people frightened and concocting securities that don’t exist. Watts thinking helps one step out of … [Read more...] about Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk
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Indicators of Risk
Indicators of Risk I often get sent presentations and training formats from safety people seeking my expertise on improvement, learning design and critique of safety presentations. One thing safety people are not educated in is teaching, curriculum and learning. Amazing how the industry throws … [Read more...] about Indicators of Risk
Understanding iCue, a Visual, Verbal, Semiotic Method for Tackling Risk
If you really want to do safety differently you need a method that is different too. You can’t do safety differently using the same old systems and methods. More so, you can’t do safety differently from the same mechanistic paradigm. This is why I developed the iCue Method for tackling risk and … [Read more...] about Understanding iCue, a Visual, Verbal, Semiotic Method for Tackling Risk
Risk iCue Video
The foundational tool in SPoR for tackling risk is the Risk iCue method. Risk iCue method is a graphical, relational, verbal and visual way of understanding risk. The method requires significant level of training in open questioning, listening and reflection. This is the first video in a series … [Read more...] about Risk iCue Video
My Journey with SPoR
Sometimes we get feedback from people in risk and safety for whom SPoR has transformed the way they tackle risk. On most occasions we don’t hear back from the many thousands who access all that is free and downloadable in SPoR. This week I received a wonderful note from someone in the UK and … [Read more...] about My Journey with SPoR
Free Advanced iCue ™ Workshops
This offer is only available for those with foundation studies in SPoR. If you have NOT studied SPoR previously please do not apply. Places are strictly limited to 50. All 4 workshops will be conducted via Zoom. You can register by emailing: robertlong2@icloud.com Registrations close 10 October … [Read more...] about Free Advanced iCue ™ Workshops
More Realistic Swiss Cheese Symbol
Dr Rob Long’s recent Safety Myths Series touched quite a few nerves in the safety industry, particularly his piece: Myth and Symbols in Safety, where he suggested that we should deconstruct the projected ‘truths’ of linearity and causality of models such as Swiss Cheese, Dominoes, Bow Tie and … [Read more...] about More Realistic Swiss Cheese Symbol
Meeting is NOT About Technique
Meeting is NOT About Technique I have received an amazing amount of feedback on my piece on Meeting (https://safetyrisk.net/meeting-in-safety-with-no-meeting/ ). So, this blog seeks to extend the discussion a little further. Ellul’s notion of Technique proposes that any quest for efficiency in … [Read more...] about Meeting is NOT About Technique
iCue Education Pack to Enable Learning in the SPoR Approach to Risk
iCue Education Pack to Enable Learning in the SPoR Approach to Risk The next free Introduction to SPoR will be conducted in April 2022, you can register HERE. The limit is to 50 people and already 20 are enrolled. There are still a few places in the free SEEK and Semiotics modules starting … [Read more...] about iCue Education Pack to Enable Learning in the SPoR Approach to Risk
Balancing Open and Closed Systems in Risk
Balancing Open and Closed Systems in Risk One of the lessons of Greg Smith’s book ‘Paper Safe’ is that completed systems in themselves are not an assurance of safety. Similarly, our series on Due Diligence (https://cllr.com.au/product/due-diligence-workshop-unit-13-elearning/ ) and resources … [Read more...] about Balancing Open and Closed Systems in Risk
