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Safety Culture

Safe Work Australia Continues to Perpetuate Safety Mythology

May 4, 2025 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Safe Work Australia Continues to Perpetuate Safety Mythology In December 2014 Safe Work Australia published Work Health and Safety Perceptions: Construction Industry. Despite the intentions of the report yet again Safe Work Australia continues to perpetuate safety mythology just as it does by … [Read more...] about Safe Work Australia Continues to Perpetuate Safety Mythology

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: safe work australia, Safety Culture, safety mythology

Safety Under Stress

October 28, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

Stress is a part of living, the pressure of being a fallible being in a complex world is stressful, but is stress bad? In what ways are humans stressed and how does this affect the discerning of risk and safety? There are four kinds of stress and each affects humans socially, psychologically, … [Read more...] about Safety Under Stress

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safe Behaviours, Safety Culture, Stress Tagged With: Safety, Safety Culture, stress

Safety=Zero Culture

July 25, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Zero has been the open religious mantra for safety for 7 years. The evidence for this cult is beyond debate (https://safetyrisk.net/if-you-want-to-know-about-culture-dont-start-with-safety/). The evidence for its support is overwhelming (https://safetyrisk.net/the-sponsors-of-zero-are/) especially … [Read more...] about Safety=Zero Culture

Filed Under: Safety Culture, Zero Harm Tagged With: Safety Culture

The 5 B’s of Safety Conversion

May 27, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

When one looks at the safety industry and safety orthodoxy in general it seems to conform to five basic approaches to the psychology of conversion. Psychology of conversion? Yes, most people in safety are as much in the evangelical conversion business as Hillsong. Mostly, the conversion desired is … [Read more...] about The 5 B’s of Safety Conversion

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Wicked Problems Tagged With: behaviour based safety, Change Management, paperwork, safety conversion, Safety Culture, safety industry, safety slogan

The Rage for Safety Utopia

May 3, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

This is the title of the stirring book by Ronal Conway published in 1992 but I have added the word safety to the title. Conway argues that obsession and compulsion for Utopia is a problem. The idea of Utopia was proposed by the Plato and the word means “no place”. The idea of utopia was later … [Read more...] about The Rage for Safety Utopia

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: Safety Culture, safety utopia

Error Trajectories and Risk

February 25, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

In 1650 heathen cultures were regarded at best as examples of human error, whilst at worst they were devices of Satan, devised to keep damned souls securely in his net. In either case it was thought that the duty of Christians was to either save them or destroy them. (Thomas Brooks Precious Remedies … [Read more...] about Error Trajectories and Risk

Filed Under: Human Error, Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: common sense, error, error trajectories, risk, Safety, Safety Culture, safety needs, Zero Harm

Prepositions for Risk and Safety Leadership

February 24, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Why not do some observing this week and see what are the most popular words spoken and written in your organisation. The way we prime and frame organizational discourse shapes the culture and focus on safety. When I am first introduced to an organisation I like to explore their cultural artifacts … [Read more...] about Prepositions for Risk and Safety Leadership

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: prepositions, Safety Culture, safety leadership, Zero Harm

Safety Culture Sinks Ships

February 17, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

These amazing photos of the Costa Concordia are a stark reminder that poor safety culture sinks ships. The picture of the large rock jammed in the hull has captured the moment when the psychological and cultural factors of this event came together. Incidents and accidents are rarely about failed … [Read more...] about Safety Culture Sinks Ships

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: Safety Culture, sink ships

Symbols Have Power

February 2, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

One of the most overlooked yet important factors in safety culture influence is the power of symbols. The psychological significance of symbols and the embodiment of values in symbols are often neglected when organisations think about safety culture. Many organisations have next to no emphasis on … [Read more...] about Symbols Have Power

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: Safety Culture, symbols, Zero Harm

Risk and Cultural Values

January 27, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Cultural Values and Translation by Trade One of the most important things we discover in a study of culture is that other people are not like us. This is why it is so crazy to assume ‘common sense’, this is why it’s so misleading to even talk about ‘common sense’. The more we use this language the … [Read more...] about Risk and Cultural Values

Filed Under: Risk Management, Robert Long Tagged With: cultural values, culture, hazards, Safety Culture, translation by trade

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