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September 1, 2018October 20, 2018

Making Language in Safety Meaningful

Making Language in Safety Meaningful Kakutani (The Death of Truth) helps us understand the power of confusion and doubt with the strategy of ‘fake news’ in the common era (https://www.amazon.com/Death-Truth-Notes-Falsehood-Trump/dp/0525574824 ). This was captured splendidly in the documentary Merchants of… Read the rest

March 10, 2018March 10, 2018

Until Nothing Changes in Safety

Until Nothing Changes in Safety The industry of safety becomes more and more fixed in its current trajectory through its linguistic practices, semiotic meanings and social reproduction. What does this mean? Humans are the sum of their social relationships and… Read the rest

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017

A Better Language for Risk and Safety

A Better Language for Risk and SafetyDekker (Safety Differently, 2015, p. vi-xi) calls for a new language in risk and safety and he is so right. We know that language is the bedrock of all culture and that the way… Read the rest

August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

In the World of Safety, Political Correctness Endangers Lives

In the World of Safety, Political Correctness Endangers Lives By Phil LaDuke – First published HERE on his blog https://philladuke.wordpress.com/ When I was a kid I worked with a man who was mentally retarded. He wasn’t “special”. He wasn’t “mentally… Read the rest

August 14, 2017June 23, 2018

Speaking a New Language in Safety

Speaking a New Language in Safety Dekker wisely recommends that Safety needs a new language (and discourse) for understanding and acting safety (Drift into Failure, pp. 15, 49, 53, 58, 123). He rightly asserts that the language (and grammar) of… Read the rest

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