One of the primary ways we know our unconscious is through dreaming. Sometimes in a daydream or lucid dream it is even more real to us. One of the most significant researchers and geniuses that influences SPoR is C. G. Jung … [Read more...] about Meditating on Dreams and the Unconscious Self
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The Mystery of The Unconscious for Safety
You won’t find a detailed study of the human unconscious in relation to risk and safety in the safety industry. Yet, you will hear countless references to it as: ‘complacency’, ‘lack of awareness’ and ‘lack of concentration’ etc. Indeed, most often when the word ‘complacency’ is given that’s the end … [Read more...] about The Mystery of The Unconscious for Safety
Counter Intuitive Safety
Introduction Neuroscience research has revealed that our brains account for approximately two percent of our body weight, but consume about fifteen percent of our cardiac output, twenty percent of our total body oxygen and approximately twenty-five percent of our blood sugar. They are built up of … [Read more...] about Counter Intuitive Safety
The ASSP Getting Complacency Completely Wrong
Editors Note: They’ve also gotten it very wrong before, see: The Complacency DelusionThere’s no doubt about it. When Safety doesn’t know something it just makes stuff up (https://safetyrisk.net/when-safety-doesnt-know-just-make-st-up/ ). And Safety is so good at it. Experts in spruiking complete … [Read more...] about The ASSP Getting Complacency Completely Wrong
Essential Readings – Neuroscience and the Whole Person
Whenever I conduct modules in SPoR I find most commonly that people in safety read very little. Often, they explain that they have no time because their working life is exhaustive with so much paperwork and meetings. Similarly, their formation in the industry is consumed with reading … [Read more...] about Essential Readings – Neuroscience and the Whole Person
When Safety Doesn’t Know, Just Make S*#t Up
When Safety Doesn’t Know, Just Make S*#t Up I get crazy safety stuff posted to me daily and none of it is a surprise. When this mono-disciplinary industry gets to making sausages, it’s all fat and no meat. For example: you will see in this blog, some slides from a presentation from a crane company … [Read more...] about When Safety Doesn’t Know, Just Make S*#t Up
The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate
The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate How Many Angels Can Dance on a Pinhead? Introduction Let me first acknowledge that I do not find any ranking of safety such as S1 or S2 helpful, so I try to avoid such language and will do my best to avoid it in this paper. Indeed, ranking language in safety is … [Read more...] about The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate
Why Safety is Attracted to Behaviourism
There is no doubt that simplistic back and white binary thinking and methods are attractive. Who wants complex or ‘wicked’ when a simple delusion will do. All you have to do is place such a worldview over reality and make it fit your assumptions and then ensure you never talk about any of the … [Read more...] about Why Safety is Attracted to Behaviourism
Ritual Performance and Risk
Ritual Performance and Risk One of the by-products and effects of safety bureaucracy is the reduction of personal agency. That is, people are controlled by process, systems and rituals rather than by relationship, interactive engagement and human mediation. The process of displacement then makes … [Read more...] about Ritual Performance and Risk
Culture Silences in Safety – Stress, Personality and Behaviours
In all the mythology projected by BBS (the darling of safety) you never read about the subjectivities of perception, aberrations of behaviour or how personality/temperament determination enactment. The crazy assertion of BBS is that behaviours in themselves are somehow objective, when they are not. … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Stress, Personality and Behaviours