One of the most offensive and unethical signals on culture used by Hopkins and Cooper in their chapters in the book Safety Cultures, Safety Models is the language of ‘over-ride’. This is the kind of stuff Safety delights in when it has no ethic of risk. Both authors suggest a desirability to … [Read more...] about Safety Gives Me the Right to ‘Over-Ride’ Your Rite
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Rituals in Risk Management – Podcast
A conversation between Dr Nippin Anand and Dr Robert Long on the importance of understanding ritual in relation to understanding culture. The discussion is based on the SPoR Ritual and Gesture Tool. Next podcast will be on the importance of gesture in risk management. LISTEN TO IT HERE … [Read more...] about Rituals in Risk Management – Podcast
Culture Silences in Safety – Ritual
Talking about ‘ritual’ in safety is a bit like talking about the war (see video below). Safety is so often noisy about petty risk and so silent about the many critical indicators of culture (https://safetyrisk.net/category/safety-culture-silences/ ). Just search for safety+culture+ritual and see … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Ritual
Ritual Performance and Risk
Ritual Performance and Risk One of the by-products and effects of safety bureaucracy is the reduction of personal agency. That is, people are controlled by process, systems and rituals rather than by relationship, interactive engagement and human mediation. The process of displacement then makes … [Read more...] about Ritual Performance and Risk
Scapegoating and Safety
Scapegoating and Safety The Scapegoat has always been a part of the way the Sacred deals with harm, suffering, uncertainty and guilt. All civilizations and religions have practiced various forms of scapegoating for millennia. The best way to understand the nature of scapegoating is through … [Read more...] about Scapegoating and Safety
Shared Ritual in the Safety Congregation?
Shared Ritual in the Safety Congregation? When anything involves salvation there is ritual. This is the energy of Zero. Follow these procedures, habits, practices, myths or routine enactments and thou shalt be saved … [Read more...] about Shared Ritual in the Safety Congregation?
Ritual as Embodied Learning in Safety
Ritual as Embodied Learning in Safety I have written about the nature of ritual previously, particularly the properties of ritual: https://safetyrisk.net/safety-as-ritual-performance/ All rituals (and associated semiotics) ‘embody’ learning. It is important when understanding learning that we … [Read more...] about Ritual as Embodied Learning in Safety
Loathing Fallibility and Rituals of Safety
Loathing Fallibility and Rituals of Safety I was in the Post Office yesterday and despite the markings on the floor, some people didn’t maintain the appropriate social distance. There were 3 people at the counter and one person was asked to wait while the attendant searched out back for an order. … [Read more...] about Loathing Fallibility and Rituals of Safety
Safety as Ritual Performance
Humans create rituals so that they don’t have to think rationally about a process that is symbolized in the ritual. In this way meaning is transferred quickly and doesn’t require arduous concentration about meaning in the ritual itself. All rituals construct symbols and myths that embody the meaning … [Read more...] about Safety as Ritual Performance
Safety Sacraments and Rituals
Safety Sacraments and Rituals As Australians approach the time of year most dense with symbolism (ANZAC and Easter), it may be helpful to ponder the nature, power and significance of symbols, sacraments and rituals in relation to the safety industry. After all, the safety industry is now imbued … [Read more...] about Safety Sacraments and Rituals
