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Real Risk for Real Life

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

Real Risk for Real Life The problems of death and time lay at the heart of all religious consciousness. This is why Risk and Safety are fundamentally religious activities. Risk and Safety are all about ‘risk from’ and ‘safety to’. Risk and Safety are about freedom from death which is inevitable in … [Read more...] about Real Risk for Real Life

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: harm, religion, time, zero vision

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

Heaven ‘n Hell and the Safety Religion

January 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Heaven ‘n Hell and the Safety Religion I try not to get surprised by the amount of safety delusion that gets sent to me each week. Most of it is packaged in religious discourse and soteriology (salvation discourse) all about playing ‘god’ over other people. The sense of omnipotence displayed in the … [Read more...] about Heaven ‘n Hell and the Safety Religion

Filed Under: Covid-19, Robert Long Tagged With: Bradley Curve, religion, semantics

Understanding Humans and How They Tackle Risk

April 10, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Understanding Humans and How They Tackle Risk Without a proper understanding of humans, fallibility and an holistic understanding culture, Safety will never develop a humanising approach to risk. These can never be developed from an engineering-behaviourist worldview. One of the major errors of a … [Read more...] about Understanding Humans and How They Tackle Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: fallibility, religion, transdisciplinarity

Making Safety Religious

July 26, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Making Safety Religious There was an interesting article in the Conversation today by Chris Hartney arguing that ignorance/naivety about religious awareness tends to make one more religious. One doesn’t have to look very hard to demonstrate this is true in Safety. It is very clear now that the … [Read more...] about Making Safety Religious

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: religion, transdisciplinarity

Blind Faith in Safety

June 4, 2018 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Blind Faith in Safety If you are a child of the 1970s you will know of one of the greatest bands of all time – Blind Faith. One of the first ‘super groups’ comprised of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. Blind Faith formed in 1968 from the break up of the first ‘super group’ … [Read more...] about Blind Faith in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: blind faith, faith, leap of faith, religion

The Acts of God and Act of Humans

October 24, 2017 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Acts of God and Act of Humans We are told that injury, harm and suffering were once perceived as ‘acts of god’ but are now conceived as ‘acts of man’ (sic) or ‘acts of humans’. This is the new commonly accepted thesis branded as ‘the scientific view’. The idea that injury, harm and pain are … [Read more...] about The Acts of God and Act of Humans

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: myths, religion, sia bok

The Religion of Safety

October 17, 2017 by Admin Leave a Comment

The Religion of Safety The recent World Safety Conference shows just how religious in nature and less secular Safety is becoming. We are seeing the rise of the desperate and fearful Safety Fundamentalists, the zealous worship of the zero harm mantra and the denial of fallibility and suffering. Rob … [Read more...] about The Religion of Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: religion, safety moments

No Evidence for the Religion of Zero

September 11, 2017 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

No Evidence for the Religion of Zero Vision Zero or Zero Vision? Religious studies demonstrate that in our post-science/post-text world the secular is becoming more religious and the religious is becoming more secular (Ostwalt, 2012, Secular Steeples, Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination … [Read more...] about No Evidence for the Religion of Zero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: religion, vision zero, Zero Harm

Is Harm and Suffering Evil?

September 4, 2017 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Is Harm and Suffering Evil? Is fallibility and mortality wrong? Is harm the enemy of safety? Are all accidents preventable? Are mistakes bad? Is it wrong to be human? Is risk essential to learning? Can people learn without risk? Is ‘trial and error’ a problem? What does it mean to be human? What is … [Read more...] about Is Harm and Suffering Evil?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: harm, religion, suffering

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