Risk Culture and Cultural Risk When the risk and safety industry defines culture it doesn’t consider critical aspects of culture. The most common definition is that culture is ‘what we do around here’ which fits in nicely with the behaviourist-cognitivist worldview that dominates the sector. So people in the risk industry role up to training […]
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Enculturing Safety
Enculturing Safety 30 July Speaking at a rally in Washington DC on 2011 Matt Damon stated: “As I look at my life today, the things I value the most about myself are my imagination, the love of acting, my passion for writing, my love of learning, my curiosity – all come from how I was […]
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Regulation Madness
Regulation Madness I saw the Conference topic ‘Regulating Workplace Culture’ and thought, you can’t make up such bat crazy stuff. In what universe of sensible thought could one possibly think that culture can be regulated. You might as well assert that one can regulate the weather and clouds. Culture is best understood semiotically or as […]
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The Plan – Corporate Reality Check
The Corporate Plan and How $#it Happens Republished from a long time ago by request Everyone says that cultural change must start at the top. Does it?. Just found this classic old poem in the archives. Explains, better than I could, why corporate initiatives (like safety or cultural improvements) are not always best led from […]
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Safety culture – it doesn’t exist
I just came across this article on the Industrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) website (which surprised me given the traditional safety stuff you normally read there!) and I thought it was well worth sharing as it provides a more realistic view on safety culture than perhaps you have read before! Favourite quote: So the […]
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A Formula for Safety Culture Failure and Success
Having many times, recently, been asked to define culture and risk, I figured all I need to do is to refer people to this cracker from the archives: A Formula for Safety Culture Failure and Success I find it fascinating to read many uses of the word ‘culture’ and ‘risk’ that have no complementary reference […]
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Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk Imagination
Republished by Request My favourite line: “Finally, we could spend a bit more time with our little kids and start practicing a way of thinking we have devalued for far too long and bring some fun back into making sense of risk.” Incident Investigation and the Limits of Risk Imagination ‘Everything you can imagine is […]
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Four Indicators of Toxic Safety Culture
Four Indicators of Toxic Safety Culture When professionals get concerned about the safety culture in organisations there are a range of dispositions that indicate that things are not good. Recognising these indicators early is one of the best ways to ensure that problems are addressed. The combination of the following indicators in an organisation are […]
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Binary Opposites and Safety Goal Strategy
Republished by request and now with accompanying video (at end of article). This article was referenced in the must read new book: Risky Conversations, The Law, Social Psychology and Risk (follow that link for a really cool video on the myths of safety paperwork) Quote from the article: The denial of the zero goal is […]
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Honey they get me! They get me at work!
Brilliant article by Dennis Millard from HumanRysk – first published on his blog HERE Honey they get me! They get me at work! Wouldn’t it be great if our employees all felt they were understood in our business? I often hear business managers/owners saying how frustrated they are to have their staff not following procedures, […]
