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Who is the Enemy and What War is Safety Fighting?

June 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Who is the Enemy and What War is Safety Fighting? It is interesting after the last piece on the military as a model for safety leadership the responses that assumed that somehow the military was under attack. The idea that the military is a ‘lean, green safety machine’ was used on another blog to … [Read more...] about Who is the Enemy and What War is Safety Fighting?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: metaphors, military, regulations, Safety, war

Culture Silences in Safety – Metaphor

June 18, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Culture Silences in Safety - Metaphor Continuing the theme of Culture Silences in Safety (https://safetyrisk.net/category/safety-culture-silences/ ) our next cab off the rank is metaphor. Although a sub-set of linguistics and Poetics, metaphor deserves special mention when it comes to tackling the … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Metaphor

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: metaphors, safety models

Why Metaphors Matter in Risk

June 10, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

  We all use metaphors in how we speak and communicate to each other. Metaphor is poetic language that requires imagination to understand how a bridge is created for understanding. A metaphor is a mechanism that uses an image to convey meaning about something else … [Read more...] about Why Metaphors Matter in Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: bowtie diagram, metaphors, SEEK, Swiss Cheese Model

Zero Harm, Santa Claus and Other Such Myths

June 10, 2023 by Rob Sams 9 Comments

Zero Harm, Santa Claus and Other Such Myths It’s beginning to look at lot like….. well you know the song. It’s that time of the year where you can’t take a trip to the shopping centre (mall) without the sounds of carols and other Christmas songs dominating the airwaves. It’s also that time of the … [Read more...] about Zero Harm, Santa Claus and Other Such Myths

Filed Under: Leadership, Rob Sams, Safety Myths, Zero Harm Tagged With: christmas, metaphors, myth, santa, xmas, Zero Harm

Don’t Look Now Safety, Your Metaphor is Showing

January 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Don’t Look Now Safety, Your Metaphor is Showing As much as STEM thinking knows anything about language, what it doesn’t know is that language is mostly NOT descriptive. Most of the time when humans seek to communicate they use language that is NOT descriptive but figurative. We most often seek to … [Read more...] about Don’t Look Now Safety, Your Metaphor is Showing

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Slogan Power

September 2, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Many people underestimate the power of slogans because they function like metaphors and in many ways are hidden in language. It is impossible for humans to communicate without using either. The rhythmic power of slogans and the mis-directive power of metaphors are a central vehicle for … [Read more...] about Slogan Power

Filed Under: Covid-19, Robert Long, Safety Slogans & Pictures Tagged With: metaphors, military, soldier on

Visual Perception and the Camera Metaphor

April 13, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

We live by myths and metaphors and some of the myths and metaphors we use in risk are unhelpful. We construct guiding principles that we live by (myths-symbols) and express those myth-symbols in metaphors we use to explain what we believe. These metaphors (Lakhoff and Johnson) then become the way we … [Read more...] about Visual Perception and the Camera Metaphor

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: metaphors, myths, symbols

STEM Safety in Drag

October 30, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 8 Comments

  All humans select metaphors and metonymies to form coherent systems in terms of which they conceptualize experience. In safety the predominant grammar is mechanistic anchored to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). Even if one claims in safety some source in social science … [Read more...] about STEM Safety in Drag

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: metaphors, STEM

Military Metaphors in Safety

November 19, 2014 by Dr Rob Long 47 Comments

Military Metaphors in Safety Check out Rob’s new book: Following-Leading in Risk Weick (1979) tells us that organizing is ‘a consensually validated grammar for reducing equivocality by means of sensible interlocking behaviours’. Wow, what a definition and so much jammed into that definition. What … [Read more...] about Military Metaphors in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: dissonence, metaphors, military, risk, rules, taleb, weick, Zero Harm

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