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An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video

January 31, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

When it comes to a discussion on culture, the risk and safety industry leaves out any discussion of the lost critical elements of culture. These are the safety silences on culture (https://safetyrisk.net/category/safety-culture-silences/ ). In SPoR, we propose a completely different understanding … [Read more...] about An Advanced Understanding of Culture – A Video

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: Anthropology, culture, culture cloud, jung, Lotman, poetics, religion, Semiosphere, semiotics, social psychology

Power and Influence Through Poetics in Risk

November 18, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I wrote about vision in Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk . Without Vision there is no learning, no ‘thought leading’ or humanising in risk. Using the word ‘vision’, doesn’t make one visionary, using the word ‘learning’ doesn’t mean learning, using the word ‘difference’ doesn’t … [Read more...] about Power and Influence Through Poetics in Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems Tagged With: Banksy, poetics, putin

Do Not Go Gently, SPoR and the Civility Myth

September 8, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

Continuing our series on Safety Myths – see them all here Dylan Thomas captures the criticality of facing death, in the throes of life, in his classic poem: ‘Do not go gentle in to that good night’. Sometimes when things cannot be stated by propositional definition they can only be spoken in … [Read more...] about Do Not Go Gently, SPoR and the Civility Myth

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Myths, Safety Poems, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: civility, fallibility, poetics

Poetics of the Self

August 7, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

When it comes to risk and safety, method is critical. Brutalizing and dehumanizing people to get a safety outcome doesn’t work (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/it-works-a-new-approach-to-risk-and-safety/ ). The best way to ensure a humanizing outcome in safety is to move away from zero, … [Read more...] about Poetics of the Self

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems Tagged With: AIHS BoK on Ethics, numerics, poetics

Is Your Ethic of Risk Poetic?

January 12, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Is Your Ethic of Risk Poetic? I define risk as ‘the faith and trust required to suspend uncertainty to act’. When we discuss Ethics and Risk we must reflect on our worldview and how we are disposed and oriented towards risk. This is how we make sense of risk … [Read more...] about Is Your Ethic of Risk Poetic?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems Tagged With: poetics

Poetic Practice and Risk

April 26, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Poetic Practice and Risk Our daily living is a continual poetic engagement with experience. We only know personally what we experience and the power of cognitive learning is quite weak. Shifting some brain-centred concept is not how learning works. A change in cognition or idea unless enacted in … [Read more...] about Poetic Practice and Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: poetics, resilience, wisdom

The Delusion of Numbers and a Number of Delusions

April 25, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Delusion of Numbers and a Number of Delusions I have a friend who was recently threatened with the sack for challenging the delusion that injury rates represent something, safety. The attribution of significance to any number is a reflection of the ideology of the speaker not reality. Numbers … [Read more...] about The Delusion of Numbers and a Number of Delusions

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Statistics Tagged With: numbers, poetics

The Poetics of Resistance and Risk

March 6, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Poetics of Resistance and Risk When one is caught in a regime of dictatorial power, where zero is the ideology, much is sustained by the management of Poetics and Semiotics. This is why resistances like the works of Banksy and other graffiti artists are so effective. If you want to pull apart … [Read more...] about The Poetics of Resistance and Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: Banksy, poetics, semiotics

A Poetics of Safety

February 6, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

A Poetics of Safety The idea of Poetics captures all forms of knowing that are non-measureable, non- quantitative, yet are essential to the experience of living. We live our life in the in-between and rarely in the extremes. We daily experience the unresolved tensions between: finitude and … [Read more...] about A Poetics of Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: poetics, safety moments

X to Zero and Zero to X

October 15, 2020 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

X to Zero and Zero to X People often ask me what I think is the opposite of zero expecting me to say ‘infinity’ but of course zero and infinity are the same thing. Whilst the quest for opposites is fascinating, the reality of where we find our living and being is in the in-between, in the … [Read more...] about X to Zero and Zero to X

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems, Zero Harm Tagged With: poetics, X, Zero Harm

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