The Paradox of Positivism for Safety Most people in safety would be unaware that the common philosophy driving the safety worldview is known as Positivism. You can get some background on positivism here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism. Positivism privileges information interpreted through reason and logic and is the most common worldview in the Discipline of General Science. Positivism […]
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How Groupthink Works
How Groupthink Works In light of the binary discourse that is floating about my last blog, Like A Collective Brain Snap, this may serve as a follow up. People often scratch their heads wondering why people do things and in exasperation and dismissal come up with the traditional stupidity/idiot causation scenario. This kind of binary […]
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Until Nothing Changes in Safety
Until Nothing Changes in Safety The industry of safety becomes more and more fixed in its current trajectory through its linguistic practices, semiotic meanings and social reproduction. What does this mean? Humans are the sum of their social relationships and the language that is used to communicate identity. Safety articulates itself through a discourse of […]
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Envisioning Risk in Canada
Envisioning Risk in Canada As I landed in Vancouver enjoying the snow-capped Rockies and myriad of islands, I wondered about meeting the ‘safety heretic’. After landing with a smashed bag and seeking a replacement I meet Jeff Lyth and we chatted about falling out with ‘the faith’ and about worldviews. This was my first meeting […]
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A Masters Degree in ‘Tick and Flick’
A Masters Degree in ‘Tick and Flick’ I was brought into an organization recently that has an induction process that defies all logic and research into learning and education. I find it astounding that people with no qualifications or experience in education and learning try to design inductions. Moreso, we often give this task to […]
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Don’t Let Evidence Get in the Way of Safety
Don’t Let Evidence Get in the Way of Safety When it comes to faith-belief, evidence rarely works. This is the primary discovery of Festinger et. al. in their study of Cognitive Dissonance. You can download When Prophecy Fails here The idea that people will make a ‘paradigm shift’ (Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) […]
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Banning Head Protection is Safer
Banning Head Protection is Safer Some may be aware that the National Boxing Championships are being conducted in Adelaide in April 2017. This is the first championship where protective headgear has been banned. This is in line with a global ban on protective headgear because it doesn’t protect heads (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2293803/Headgear-boxers-banned-bid-REDUCE-head-injuries.html). New rules by the International […]
