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If You Want to Know About Culture, Don’t Start With Safety

July 18, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Safety is a mono-disciplinary endeavour, anchored to the philosophies of Rationalism, Positivism and Behaviourism. If you seek out knowledge from this industry, that’s the methodology that generates all that follows. The method that follows has been the same in safety since 1931. These dominant … [Read more...] about If You Want to Know About Culture, Don’t Start With Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: behaviourism, positivism, rationalism

The Phenomenon of Safety – A Video

February 7, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I was asked by Billy Snead if we could do a Zoom session on the nature of Phenomenology and its relevance to safety. So, we recorded out chat here: Conversation with Billy on Phenomenology from CLLR on Vimeo. As you will see in the video, Billy rightfully identifies that the philosophy of … [Read more...] about The Phenomenon of Safety – A Video

Filed Under: Behaviourism, Robert Long Tagged With: Phenomenology, positivism

The Paradox of Positivism for Safety

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...] about The Paradox of Positivism for Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: objectivity, positivism

The Disembodied Human and Persons in Safety

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Disembodied Human and Persons in Safety One of the weaknesses of the positivist ideology (https://safetyrisk.net/the-paradox-of-positivism-for-safety/) that dominates safety is the behaviourist notion that humans are objects that simply respond to inputs and outputs. Wouldn’t it be neat and … [Read more...] about The Disembodied Human and Persons in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: positivism

The Quantitative and Qualitative Divide in Safety

June 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The Quantitative and Qualitative Divide in Safety Risk and safety by their evolution through Engineering and Science have now become disciplines of quantity. Unfortunately, critical human skills like: communications, listening, dialogue, understanding persons, social psychology, community, ethics, … [Read more...] about The Quantitative and Qualitative Divide in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: fallibility, positivism, safety 2, safety moments, STEM

Don’t Be Emotional! Another Safety Myth

October 21, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

As our society (and safety industry) continues to suffer under the burden of Scientism (Positivism), we still here this terrible accusation ‘don’t be emotional’. More so, even most awfully directed at women. This kind of language promotes ignorance from assumptions about personhood developed 300 … [Read more...] about Don’t Be Emotional! Another Safety Myth

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Myths Tagged With: emotion, feelings, positivism, Psychological Safety, scientism

Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk

October 15, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk Such a small amount of what we ‘see’ is processed through the eyes and brain indeed, this amounts to less than 5% of all ways in which we sense the world and make decisions. The idea that humans make decisions like a computer is completely … [Read more...] about Brain-Centredness and Occular-Centredness in Risk

Filed Under: Behaviour Based Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviourism, brain, inductions, positivism

What is the Mind of Safety?

August 14, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

What is the Mind of Safety? What limits Safety in innovation, creativity, ideas and vision are the upshifting ideologies of behaviourism/positivism. Whatever slogans one is attracted to, checklists one completes, or how much one repeats the word ‘differently’, how many podcasts one listens to or … [Read more...] about What is the Mind of Safety?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: behaviourism, dialectic, positivism, satisficing

The Challenge of the Consciousness Taboo

November 12, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 10 Comments

One of the by-products of STEM-only thinking in safety is the taboo of consciousness. You won’t find this challenging issue being discussed anywhere in the industry. How strange, because if there was any one subject that should be of critical importance to this industry it would be about conscious … [Read more...] about The Challenge of the Consciousness Taboo

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: behaviorism, cognitivism, conscious, positivism, rationalism, STEM, unconscious

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