Many use the word ‘methodology’ and the word ‘method’ interchangeably but this just creates confusion. Your methodology is your philosophy (your reason for being and knowing) and this drives your method (what you do). Many people in safety adopt methods eg. checklisting, investigation … [Read more...] about Methodology (Philosophy) Drives Your Safety Method
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By What Method, Safety?
After all the slogans have died down and the metaphors fade. After the conference entertainment and propaganda cease and the linguistic gymnastics parade has finished, the vital question should always be: by what method? When someone tells you how to ‘do’ something (eg. do safety differently) the … [Read more...] about By What Method, Safety?
Methods and Tools are not Skills in Tackling Risk
One of the important things we focus on in SPoR is skill development. This involves considerable unlearning and re-learning. We find most who come to our courses and programs have been indoctrinated with safety ideology that places a focus on objects not subjects. It doesn’t take any skill to count … [Read more...] about Methods and Tools are not Skills in Tackling Risk
How Do You DO Safety Differently?
In the tradition of nonsense language in HOP, where ‘blame fixes nothing’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-blame-game-of-hop/) and slogans are declared ‘truths’. There seems little consciousness of ensuring that Safety doesn’t speak nonsense to people … [Read more...] about How Do You DO Safety Differently?
By What Method?
There is so much hype and marketing in safety, with so many promises, slogans and mantras. However, when you cut through all of the spin and marketing there needs to be two critical questions to be asked: by what method? And, who does that method privilege? When one asks these questions, one is … [Read more...] about By What Method?
Of Course, Method Matters in Safety
I heard someone the other day in Safety state that method and methodology was not important because it didn’t matter as long as lives were ‘saved’. This is the kind of nonsense I would expect from an industry without a clue of moral philosophy or ethics … [Read more...] about Of Course, Method Matters in Safety
Learning, Leaning and Learning in Safety
Learning, Leaning and Learning in Safety Methodology (worldview/philosophy) drives method. Method reveals methodology. Methodology and method are NOT the same thing. It matters what methodology one assumes about learning because this determines the expected outcomes of a method. Yet, in risk and … [Read more...] about Learning, Leaning and Learning in Safety
By What Method?
By What Method? One of the strange beliefs of Safety is that the publication of injury statistics invokes change? Ah, how does it do that? Since when did information become motivation? When one looks at the many promises made in the safety industry and all the propaganda about zero, injury … [Read more...] about By What Method?
By What Method Do You Tackle Risk?
When someone asks how? the meaning is ‘by what method?’ For example, how do you make a coffee? Means by what method do you make a coffee? Do you put milk in first, last or have no milk? Do you use instant, brewed or filtered. You get what I mean. When it comes to risk and we ask the question: … [Read more...] about By What Method Do You Tackle Risk?
Being and Doing in Risk
I recently did a video with reference to the word ‘ontology’. I find it unusual in Safety that whenever an unfamiliar word is used, some respond with a keen interest to learn and others respond with negativity as if unfamiliar text is evidence of some kind of academic ‘psycho rhetoric’. It is a … [Read more...] about Being and Doing in Risk