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Trinket Safety

March 2, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

Trinket Safety There’s nothing quite like the safety market when selling snake oil. Amazing to see engineers selling neuroscience and behaviourists selling eugenics. Remarkable how easy it is to sell the silver bullet to an undiscerning audience. The marketing of so called perfect solutions to the … [Read more...] about Trinket Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: eugenics, neuroscience, snake oil

Being Safe with Psychometrics

November 25, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Being Safe with Psychometrics I read with interest this article sent to me on ‘Risk Type, compliance and personal responsibility’  under the heading ‘Culture and Behaviours’. As we know there is no such thing as objective psychology nor objectivity in the evaluation of risk. Several questions … [Read more...] about Being Safe with Psychometrics

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: behaviour, discourse analysis, Hollnagel, neuroscience, Psychometrics

Complacency, Consciousness and Error in Safety

September 8, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Recent research into the effects of drugs like Psilocybin, an ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms’ show some promise in helping with addictions and some mental health disorders. And yet, even then, researchers still don’t understand much about consciousness and the unconscious, and use the language of … [Read more...] about Complacency, Consciousness and Error in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: complacency, neuroscience

Homeostatic Regulation and the Feeling of Risk

August 28, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

As with all of my work in books, videos and blogs I provide support, practical alternatives, positive options, further learning, methods and a wealth of training material and tools (for free) to implement a SPoR approach to risk. The content of this blog is no different, except in this case I have … [Read more...] about Homeostatic Regulation and the Feeling of Risk

Filed Under: Risk Homeostasis, Robert Long Tagged With: allostasis, homeostasis, neuroscience

Safety and Non-Neuroscience

August 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

One thing you can be sure of, if Safety jumps out of its field of expertise in objects into anything to do with humans, it stuffs it up. This is no more pronounced in some of the material floating about in safety at the moment on Neuroscience. It’s amazing how Safety makes one qualified in … [Read more...] about Safety and Non-Neuroscience

Filed Under: Covid-19, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: epidemiology, jurisprudence, neuroscience, transdisciplinarity

The Purpose of Safety

July 28, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

‘The primary task for any organism—the task that must be accomplished before all others—is the preservation of life and the furtherance of conditions for the organism’s growth’ Damasio (2003) Looking for Spinoza, Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain. Damasio begins by observing, in Looking for … [Read more...] about The Purpose of Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: neuroscience, purpose, worldview

Cultural Silences in Safety – Aesthetics

July 25, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Whenever we do our culture program we work through the many beliefs, rituals and practices in societies that foster harm. So much for the nonsense of zero harm. Just watch the latest episode of 4 Corners to get an insight into just how much harm people want in order to fulfil a cultural myth. Why do … [Read more...] about Cultural Silences in Safety – Aesthetics

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: aesthetics, neuroscience, socialitie

Culture Silences in Safety – Holism

May 23, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Culture Silences in Safety - Holism There are so many critical parts of culture that Safety is silent about and yet it is so noisy about things in culture that are relatively unimportant. Just have a look at the common garden variety safety culture surveys on the market and look at their agenda. … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Holism

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: holistic safety, neuroscience, safety survey

Sleep Dysfunction, Dreaming and Safety

May 12, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Sleep Dysfunction, Dreaming and Safety There are many common themes we find in music and song, many about love and the soul, and many about dreaming. The Beatles sang about sleep and dreaming on one of their best albums (Revolver) in the song ‘I’m Only Sleeping’. Dreaming is often used as a … [Read more...] about Sleep Dysfunction, Dreaming and Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Unconscious Tagged With: dreaming, neuroscience, Sleep

What is the Human Body for in Safety?

April 29, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

What is the Human Body for in Safety? The body-mind problem (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/mind-body-problem ) ought to be a concern for anyone interested in how organisations tackle risk. The first thing to note is that whilst Safety is concerned about the body and how it gets … [Read more...] about What is the Human Body for in Safety?

Filed Under: Mental health, Robert Long Tagged With: behaviourism, human body, neuroscience

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