Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Why the way we talk about safety in an organisation matters.Does getting home at the end of the work day mean that we were safe that day?
Here’s my 7 ½ minutes on why the way we talk about safety at work matters so much.
… Learn more >>>>>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 Doubt (… Learn more >>>>>
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 the language that is used … Learn more >>>>>
Dekker (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 we speak … Learn more >>>>>
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 challenged”. He wasn’t “alternatively gifted”. … Learn more >>>>>
