Tensions and Faultiness in Risk One of the activities we undertake in the free introduction to the Social Psychology of Risk is to map the operational, emotional and ideological fault lines and tensions in the Industry. In so doing we are able to visualize the dialectic and ‘push and pull’ of doing … [Read more...] about Tensions and Faultiness in Risk
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Mandala as a Method for Tackling an Ethic of Risk (a Video)
I always find it entertaining being told by safety people what doesn’t work in SPoR. It is so interesting because such deep thinking comes from people who have never engaged with SPoR, never read SPoR and don’t know what SPoR does. When all you know is a hammer every solution is a nail. When I … [Read more...] about Mandala as a Method for Tackling an Ethic of Risk (a Video)
Visualising the EHS Role
Visual/verbal knowing is not something that Safety does well. Many of the models and graphics used in Safety are poorly constructed, linear and simplistic. The Swiss-cheese for example, is the kind of graphic enjoyed by many in Safety but it simply misleading about how incidents occur, how events … [Read more...] about Visualising the EHS Role
Visual, Verbal and Relational Mapping in Risk Assessment
One of the foundations for SPoR is Semiotics. Understanding semiotics, semiosis, semantics, the semiosphere and semiology is essential for understanding culture (https://safetyrisk.net/culture-silences-in-safety-semiotics/). Not so Safety. Poor olde Safety is so locked into the delusions of … [Read more...] about Visual, Verbal and Relational Mapping in Risk Assessment
Balance in Risk and Safety
Balance in Risk and Safety Safety in its short history has become a lopsided discipline dominated by STEM-only thinking exemplified in Behaviourism, Positivism and Engineering discourse. This has led to an objects focus evident in curriculum and Body of Knowledge that ignores many human aspects and … [Read more...] about Balance in Risk and Safety
