Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
The theme for this newsletter is gesture, the unconscious giving and receiving of semiotic communication.
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Gesture is one of those things we don’t ‘think’ about and is mostly unconscious. We learn from … Learn more >>>>>
The past 20 years the most successful program for the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) has been the Safety Conversations program. It doesn’t matter where I go in safety this shows up as the greatest need. It is simply a fact that most safety people have never been … Learn more >>>>>
One of the mythologies created by the safety industry concerns the effectiveness of checklists. Yes, checklists are useful and helpful. The Checklist Manifesto by Gawande is a reasonable read on the positives and negatives of checklists and can be downloaded here: https://www.tribalmind.co/S3/tribalmind-prod/Discoveries/gU31-m5F0E2sviPfDlZrdQ.pdf
However, Gawande only comes at the challenges of … Learn more >>>>>
The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (https://cllr.com.au/) has developed a Risk and Safety Intelligence Test so that people in the risk and safety industry can know their level of risk intelligence. We call this diagnostic the ‘HSE Risk iCue’(not IQ).
The iCue Diagnostic comprises 20 … Learn more >>>>>
The foundation of the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) is Socialitie and relationships. It is from this foundation that we learn to listen to others in order to help. Helping is not ‘telling’ and this poses one of the greatest challenges for an industry that loves … Learn more >>>>>
